Social engineering through lists

Dear all, I just received the message below. I have the suspicion that a robot searches these lists and generates these mails. Do other people get stuff like this? Cheers, Peter. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:53:05 -0800 (PST) From: Nicolette Wright To: niessen@ifh.de Subject: i have a question about a solution you gave someone in suse:XOpenDisplay in -lX11 i tried the solution and i got permission denied. i tried it both in root and not. i still get permission denied. sorry i'm a fairly new linux user. so any help you could give would be helpful. Thank You. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com