I received it also. Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > John Todd wrote: >> On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> >>> FYI/Heads up, >>> >>> I /just/ received what looks like a phishing attempt for information >>> about Open Source PBX usage. It says it comes from Digium but all the >>> links (including the one for digium.com) point elsewhere. >>> >>> >>> Rod >> >> Rod - >> It's a "legitimate" mail from Digium. We're trying to use the >> tools that others have built instead of building our own systems, so >> this particular company that we've chosen for research collection has >> their own hosts outside of the Digium DNS and server structure. >> Myself, I'm a big fan of Google Docs but they do have some >> shortcomings (like also not being in our DNS or server structure) and >> not everyone uses the same tools here at Digium. "There's more than >> one way to do it", as goes one of the more famous Asterisk sayings. >> >> Sorry if that message you received seemed unusual or unexpected >> because of the URL format. You can opt-out at the bottom of the >> emailings in the future if you wish, though some of the data that >> we're collecting will be tangentally useful in promoting OSS Asterisk >> in various forms. And to proactively answer the next question that >> may come up from someone: We've _never_ used the asterisk-* mailing >> list for any direct marketing email input lists. In other words: >> whatever email address you've used for the asterisk-* lists is >> private, and Digium never uses those for marketing purposes. > > Thanks for the info John. I figured the addresses used on the lists > were _private_. And if memory serves my correct when I did a download > a few month ago I gave my email address and an OK to contact me. The > breaking point was the digium.com link. > > > Rod
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