Disregard the email coming from the individual and I don't recommend
doing business with such a leech.
This guy wrote a program to harvest emails and mass spam using Google
Gmail, the access method of SMTP.
How I know the guy is a leech:
1) There's no User-Agent header
2) He negligently used the From: e-mail address in the To: field
instead of placing the recipient's e-mail.
3) Others in #django on IRC have confirmed receiving the email
4) The email is not personal. As a member of DjangoPeople, I list my
real name on the profile.
5) The site listed has WhoisGuard protecting the whois information
6) There is no address listed on the website
7) Listing a meager task of "upgrading a django installation" as
significant. (*chuckle*)
Why anyone would hire a programmer simply because of an email is
beyond me, but whoever does use sucha method deserves to be screwed.
I've been subcontracted from IRC, simply by helping other individuals.
Had I the need at any point to pass some work, I'd pass work to
individuals in the Django community who spend their free time helping
others. Time is money, those helping others are doing so at no cost.
So if anyone does happen to need help from key people in the
community, browse the mailing list or stick around on the IRC channel,
you'll find out who is who.
Simply put as a person who detests spam, "Ashley J. Sands, bugger off.
If you need a job, I hear McDonalds is hiring."
Below the email with headers which I received:
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From: Ashley Sands <ashley.j.sa...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 21:49:09 +1000
Message-ID: <AANLkTilE7CsBa_IxmLCs137SJMVID57RkX-
uagjlg...@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Fellow freelancer
To: Ashley Sands <ashley.j.sa...@gmail.com>
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Hi,
I stumbled across your djangopeople.net profile and thought I would
send you
an email.
I am a freelance programmer like yourself but I have only been
freelancing
for several months. I was hoping that you could do me a favour by
checking
out my website, ajsands.com, and consider keeping me in mind if you
were
ever to have too much contract work. I must mention that I live in
Australia. As I am relatively new to Django, I charge a low
contractor's
rate of $40 USD/hr.
Thank you,
Ashley
--
Ashley Sands | Freelance Software Engineer
mob: +61412973530
ajsands.com
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