Yeah; It's suspicious (or "suss" as the kids say nowadays).

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley


On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:12 PM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It occurs to me that this mail itself is potentially spam advertising.
> Note:
>
> 1) Attempt to create fear (oh no I have a broken link, or a server
> problem) to get attention and then transition to unrelated request
> 2) Inclusion of a mention of a *commercial* web site
> 3) The request clearly doesn't make sense considering the pages linked.
> 4) extremely generic lead in "contact you regarding some issues I had on
> your website" that would work for any site.
> 5) The sender is sending from uscmailing.org? probably meant to make one
> think it's related to USC university, but the domain is registered in
> Iceland.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:08 PM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Ishan responded to you 4 days ago:
>>
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6b65eebb4b2b3d724f8ef91e0587ebebf75effe72444b3d709de7905%40%3Cdev.solr.apache.org%3E
>>
>> This is a mailing list, and thus responses go to the list and then from
>> the list to you, and not directly from a respondent to you.  Perhaps you
>> are not subscribed to the list?  I'm sending this email directly to you as
>> well to ensure you see it.
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:25 PM Malika Brown <malika.br...@uscmailing.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I was suggested to contact you regarding some issues I had on your
>>> website.
>>>  I ran across your resource page while researching an article (
>>> https://solr.apache.org/community.html) and this link wasn’t working:
>>> - https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct, but I just
>>> checked again and it seems to be working now... maybe their site was down
>>> for a little while. Sorry about that!
>>>
>>> Also, I'm curious, are you still accepting suggestions to this page? I
>>> volunteered with a group last semester that I think would be great to
>>> include on your page as well:
>>>
>>> It’s a dedicated organization that works to better support our
>>> communities and every individual regardless of their gender, age,
>>> nationality, or religion by providing free high-quality legal templates and
>>> information online: FormsPal.com
>>>
>>> Do you think it would be possible for you to include them on your page?
>>> I'm always trying to spread the word when I can. Please let me know!
>>>
>>> Thanks and have a great day!
>>>
>>
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