On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:39:27PM +0200, Marek wrote: > Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? A little bit of network detective work is in order... > > Dear Colleague: > > You may know that Red Hat Network is the best way to keep your > systems running the latest errata and always up to date. What you > > Learn more about the benefits of being a Red Hat Network Subscriber: > http://redhat.chtah.com/a/tA$f1ahAJPSNNAMoxTCAMdlbiWw/rhat1 Note the domain name. It isn't redhat.com. Running whois on chtah.com shows: Registrant: CheetahMail (CHTAH-DOM) 29 Broadway, 21st floor New York, NY 10006 US Domain Name: CHTAH.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Villeger, David (VD322) david-nic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CheetahMail 432 9th Street, #1 BROOKLYN, NY 11215 US 212-809-0825 212-809-6378 Record expires on 31-May-2006. Record created on 31-May-2000. Database last updated on 24-Mar-2003 15:48:06 EST. Domain servers in listed order: C.NS.CHTAH.COM 216.15.189.57 D.NS.CHTAH.COM 216.15.189.58 E.NS.CHTAH.COM 207.251.96.133 F.NS.CHTAH.COM 207.251.96.134 A look at http://cheetahmail.com/ shows: "CheetahMail's email marketing and customer intelligence technology is designed for companies that want to increase their brand equity through the acquisition and retention of their customer base. By empowering companies to send highly targeted and relevant emails to their permission based subscriber list, companies can leverage the use of the web as a means to cut costs, strengthen relationships and increase ROI. "Discover why the industries most sophisticated marketers are turning to CheetahMail for all of their email marketing needs." At least one anti-spam outfit considers them a spamhaus: http://electriceye.net/banned/domainview.asp?key=cheetahmail.com You can do your own google search from there. Conclusion: if not spam, then highly likely a spamhaus. Marek, would you please check the headers. Did this come from Red Hat or from CheetaMail? If from Red Hat, why would Red Hat be using an outfit with a reputation for being a spamhaus? If not, it's spam. > > To purchase a Red Hat Network subscription: > http://redhat.chtah.com/a/tA$f1ahAJPSNNAMoxTCAMdlbiWw/rhat2 > > Thanks again for using Red Hat Linux. We appreciate all feedback > from our users and hope you enjoy Red Hat Linux 9. > > Sincerely, > > Red Hat > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The above email is intended for people who have opted-in to receiving > email from Red Hat. If you think that you have received this email in > error, please accept our apologies. Simply click on the link in the > section below and we'll make sure you do not receive this kind of > email from Red Hat again. > http://redhat.chtah.com/a/tA$f1ahAJPSNNAMoxTCAMdlbiWw/rhat3?t=VALUEtVALUE > -- -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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