From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Messages purporting to be from Sally Hand
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:15:26 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Today I got six identical HTML emails from someone purporting to be
Sally Hand.  (She attended 19 WSFA meeetings about a decade ago.)
All six were apparently sent directly from Facebook, with a subject
of "Check out my photos on Facebook."  But first, I'm told, I have
to *join* Facebook.  There's no direct URL, no personalized text, no
non-Facebook URL or email address, and no indication as to why she
would be contacting me, what the pictures contain, or why she thinks
they might interest me.  In other words, it looks and feels very
automated, impersonal, repetitive, HTMLish, and spammy.

Three of them were sent to my regular email address, and the other
three to a disposable email address that expired five years ago.

Needless to say, I have no intention of joining Facebook, as any
attempt to view any of their pages gets me:

  You are using an incompatible web browser.

  Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser.  Please keep
  it real with one of the following browsers: ...

I guess they disagree with the following:

  "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label
  on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before
  the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document
  written on another computer, another word processor, or another
  network."
  -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web.

Did anyone else get anything like this?  Does anyone have any idea
what's going on?  Does anyone have a current email address for her?
Thanks.