From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2006-02-02T06:43:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Strange posting about ebooks In article , wrote: >Hi -- > >On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Peter Hickman wrote: > >> For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various >> Ruby related ebooks: >> >> Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf >> Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf >> The Pickaxe.pdf >> Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf >> The Ruby way.chm >> Ruby in a nutshell.chm >> >> To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them? >> >> They came from Mubin Aktan and the to list was >> obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com, paul.umbers@gmail.com, >> peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com > >Yes, I got them too, with four or five other people on the to list. > >Unfathomable is right. I can't begin to figure out what's behind >this. Sheer malice springs to mind. > I got them too. It seems that whoever did this got their list of email addresses from this list. Probably sent to anyone who had posted recently. Not sure why either. Phil