RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-25 Thread Ward William E DLDN
Rob, before you get too worked up about this, I got it too... from the email address I used when I setup my up2date and RHN registration, which is NOT the same as this address, or any other address I've subscribed to any Redhat or Linux information on. So, whoever sent it had to have gotten the i

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-25 Thread Roger
Red Hat has been using this company for quite some time in the mailout of their 'Under the Brim' newsletter which you can subscribe on their front page. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > if this is in fact legit, i'm more than a little stunned. who at > red hat decided to provide

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:56:28 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > redhat.chtah.com. > > a quick browse of www.chtah.com shows a

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
Dammit, I just got 8 working the way I want. :o) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Jeff Lane
Robert P. J. Day wrote: Red Hat list admin: A number of folks received the following on the Red Hat mailing list recently. The overwhelming evidence is that it is spam, given the return address of redhat.chtah.com Ummm nope. Unless this spammer happened to also take over the redhat.com domain

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:23:58PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > at this point, it's not the existence of red hat 9 that's the issue -- > it's the offer for RHN subscription that appears to be going back to > an obvious spammer -- that is, chtah.com. There's a very clear distinction between "an

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Jeff Cours
I'm just trying to figure out why they'd announce a jump from RH8.0 direct to 9.0 that'll be available the day before April Fool's day. This kind of thing would make a great April Fool's joke, but judging by the web site, they're serious about it. No obvious domain hijacking going on either: [

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
Robert P. J. Day wrote: can someone clarify this? i mean, it makes no sense for red hat to be sending out offers like this from the chtah.com domain, does it? All previous announcements have been done through this domain as well, including their RHCE specific surveys, etc. Unless they're reall

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Rober! This is *NOT* spam. > > http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ > > And the email I got FROM RH has my username and info in it. It is most > certainly from RedHat, and it most certainly is v9.0. if this is in fact legit, i'm more than a little stun

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jody Cleveland wrote: > > before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > > redhat.chtah.com. > > > > a quick browse of www.chtah.com shows an obvious > > spammer. so this is total nonsense. > > I al

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Ezra Nugroho
Look at www.redhat.com there is a reference to RHL 9 over there. On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:11, Jody Cleveland wrote: > > before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > > redhat.chtah.com. > > > > a quick browse of www.ch

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Bill Anderson
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 12:56, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > redhat.chtah.com. > > a quick browse of www.chtah.com shows an obvious > spammer. so this is total nonsense. Actually, g

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Love
> A number of folks received the following on the Red Hat mailing > list recently. The overwhelming evidence is that it is spam, > given the return address of redhat.chtah.com. This is from the marketing company redhat has been using for several of it's most recent emails.I also recieved an

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Eric Wood
But would http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ resolve? -eric Robert P. J. Day wrote: > before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > redhat.chtah.com. > > a quick browse of www.chtah.com shows an obvious > spammer. so this

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Dan Dobbs
Dude, if you follow the links, it points back to redhat. I'm guessing they used a third-party provider to handle the traffic this message would cause. -dd >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/03 12:00PM >>> Red Hat list admin: A number of folks received the following on the Red Hat mailing list recent

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
Rober! This is *NOT* spam. http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ And the email I got FROM RH has my username and info in it. It is most certainly from RedHat, and it most certainly is v9.0. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert P. J.

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Mike
I thought so too, but it's mentioned on the Redhat web site. Mike On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:56, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > redhat.chtah.com. > > a quick browse of www.chtah

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Jody Cleveland
> before anyone gets too cranked up about this, it is almost > certainly bogus. look at the return email address -- > redhat.chtah.com. > > a quick browse of www.chtah.com shows an obvious > spammer. so this is total nonsense. I also belong to Redhat Network. They sent a message about this