Re: strange email

[Philip Ching (605.734.71) <pching aplcenMP apl jhu edu>]

Thank you, Nikki (and others)!

At least I know now that I am not ignoring some friends
(whether I had met him/her before or not), and I am not
the only one who had received the same email.

But what does he really want? Doesn't make sense to me.

I'll follow your advice in responding to such emails in 
the future.

Thanks again!

Philip


>Well Philip,
>
>I certainly don't intend to impose my yardstick on you.  Having said that,
>my typical course is to err on the side of caution.  
>
>Were I in your shoes, receiving a request for info from someone I couldn't
>place, I'd not be inclined to provide them with any system info specific to
>my machine.  I'd be more than happy to give them pointers, if I had them.
>Anything else is:  "Sorry, bud... can't help ya... try subscribing to
>redhat-list or doing a search on the Faq-O-Matic"
>
>But then.... that's just me, Philip...
>
>HTH,
>
>Nikki
>
>At 10:48 AM 3/16/99 , you wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I received an email (see attached) and don't know what to do. 
>>It does not come from the redhat-list. I seem not to remember
>>who is DRizzo80.
>>
>>Not that I don't want to help. Just feel a little paranoid
>>about the Internet.
>>
>>Any idea?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>
>>Philip
>>
>>==================================================================
>>>From DRizzo80 aol com Sun Mar 14 10:52 EST 1999
>>Received: from imo12.mx.aol.com (imo12.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.2])
>>	by aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA14918
>>	for <pching aplcenmp apl jhu edu>; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:52:13 -0500 (EST)
>>From: DRizzo80 aol com
>>Received: from DRizzo80 aol com
>>	by imo12.mx.aol.com (IMOv19.3) id mZJWa01925
>>	for <pching aplcenmp apl jhu edu>; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:49:34 -0500 (EST)
>>Message-ID: <a658a051 36ebda8e aol com>
>>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:49:34 EST
>>To: pching aplcenMP apl jhu edu
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>Subject: (no subject)
>>Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
>>X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 206
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>>Content-Length: 151
>>Status: RO
>>X-Status: 
>>
>>Hey bud, do you have a var/lock/LCK..modem file?  if you do does it say 
>>412 minicom ....  I need to know the three words in this file.
>>
>>Please help!!
>>
>>
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