On 10/13/07, Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Hale wrote:
> > OMG a Google employee was dumb enough to spam an entire mailing list
> > to get to one person. WOW, I thought they hired really smart people.
>
> Not any more. Google's been hiring msfters for a few years without a
> year or two for detox at an intermediate company, thus ensuring that the
> poisonous work culture spreads to Google. Not to mention employing the
> dregs that MS has on the payroll is going to drag down the average IQ.
>
> However, I'd not rule out the chance that the original message was yet
> another troll. They're getting we crafted these days as several
> international interests step up their actions against software.
>
I was thinking it might be a troll too, but I checked the headers...
Received: from smtp-out.google.com (smtp-out.google.com [216.239.33.17])
by cvs.openbsd.org (8.14.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id l9D0O5EU028145
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO)
for <misc@openbsd.org>; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:24:06 -0600 (MDT)
Received: from zps76.corp.google.com (zps76.corp.google.com [172.25.146.76])
by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id l9D0NdiF014000
for <misc@openbsd.org>; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:23:39 +0100
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns;
h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type;
b=sj5s4/Mri/3JSRVk8et5HMSlxWjPsfy68EVZ8iuA41lJ3MXJzhCKeadQebuLb7hUG
PGLF9/NU3oL4+ocjLDBBQ==
Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fkab27.prod.google.com [10.94.53.27])
by zps76.corp.google.com with ESMTP id l9D0NQku013455
for <misc@openbsd.org>; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:38 -0700
Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1011435fka
for <misc@openbsd.org>; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.82.146.14 with SMTP id t14mr7193319bud.1192235017754;
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.82.153.18 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
The boundary server checks out.
$ ping smtp-out.google.com
PING smtp-out.google.com (216.239.33.17): 56 data bytes
I think it's real...
and in that case: OMG!!!
(and yes, google reads my email. that's on my list of things not to
do. anyone heard of sup.rubyforge.org?)
~Nick
