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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/31/07 21:13
RafaMinu wrote:
> On Dec 31, 8:00 pm, Bergamot <berga...@visi.com> wrote:
>> RafaMinu wrote:
>>> [spam about] Consulting and teaching positions:
>>> ...
>>> Recruiting Manager
>>> Human Factors International
>> This bit of spam I don't get.
>> 1. A bona fide HFI representative wouldn't be using a hotmail address
>> 2. HFI should have no need to spam Usenet with this stuff and I can't
>> fathom them doing it
>>
>> It's inconceivable to me that this spammer is even remotely associated
>> with HFI. What benefit could he possibly get out of this?
>
> And who says I'm a HFI representative?
> I find the information interesting and I post it here because it might
> be of interest to other people.
> What's the problem?
It's unusual for people to read an ad for some arbitrary service with
which they have no affiliation and to be seized by the urge to place a
note about it in multiple Usenet newsgroups in which they don't
participate purely for the benefit of people they don't know. It isn't
unreasonable in these cases to suspect that the note is a more-or-less
disguised ad posted by a person who stands to benefit, directly or
indirectly, from the posting.
One time I saw a real idiot pull a stunt where he made himself out to be
an ordinary consumer just like us who had discovered this fantastic
product that he felt he had to share with us. He got really quiet after
someone pointed out to him that the message's headers revealed that it
had come from the very company that he was pretending only to have
happened upon.
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