Re: Mathematica Categorization - Humor
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- Subject: [mg52057] Re: [mg52037] Mathematica Categorization - Humor
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:36:44 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 8 Nov 2004, at 17:13, William E. Bohrer wrote: > Dear Steve! > > Thank you very much for this sentence in your [mg51971] wherein you > state: > "I sometimes get spam from myself!" This is so funny that I laughed out > loud! > > Then I ran off to tell my wife, but she started chanting her "You love > Mathematica better than you love me!" mantra so I guess she didn't get > it. > > Thanks again for a truly wonderful laugh! I have been chuckling about > this > all day! > > Bill Bohrer > > P.S. Then I emailed it to both of my friends! BB > > P.P.S. Then I printed a hard copy! I'm gonna show it to my therapist > on > Wednesday! If she thinks it is as funny as I do, then I will even > show it > to my Parole Officer! > It may have sounded like a good joke to you but I don't think it was meant to be one. It is very easy to "get spam from oneself". You can easily "spoof" any person's e-mail address and pretend that that is where the mail you are sending is coming from. This trick is so well known it has a special name: "a joe-job". And, in particular, you can send someone a message that looks like it is coming from him. The spammer hopes than in this way the message will avoid being filtered. I used to get quite a few messages like that and I assure you they did not make me laugh. Now I don't because the filter on my mail server is set to reject any mail that seems to be coming from me. Andrzej Kozlowski