An Email Conversation With a Would-Be Enoch Root
From the Quicksilver Metaweb.
The Start of the Conversation
by Mike Lorrey
I had gone to [http://www.societaseruditorum.org|societaseruditorum dot org] and tried a few minor things. A few days later I received the following email in my spam box:
In investigating societaseruditorum.org, I received the following email (which was directed to my spam directory by yahoo, leading me to believe the domain holder is a spammer or is hosted by a company that serves spammers):
X-Apparently-To: mlorrey@yahoo.com via 68.142.200.139; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:14:43 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 24.85.76.137
Authentication-Results: mta145.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=societaseruditorum.org; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [24.85.76.137]
Return-Path: <enochroot@societaseruditorum.org:
Received: from 24.85.76.137 (EHLO VAULT) (24.85.76.137) by mta145.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:14:43 -0800 <BR: Received: from VAULT.vc.shawcable.net ([24.85.76.137]) by VAULT (602LAN SUITE 2004) id 30bff75a for mlorrey@yahoo.com; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:13:40 -0800 <BR: From: "Enoch Root" enochroot@societaseruditorum.org Add to Address Book
To: mlorrey@yahoo.com <BR: Subject: You enquired? <BR: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:13:40 -0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C50EE3.D8E0BFA0"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353
Thread-Index: AcUPJuY2f4BBGHaaT1qc4L+BXVqmng==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527
Content-Length: 1589
I noticed you were knocking at my door. Is there something I can do for you?
Enoch
I replied, but my reply got bounced...
"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. enochroot@societaseruditorum.org: Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: mlorrey@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 88947 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Feb 2005 16:30:20 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=pBbkTRrpujRJQpZQw32q4uEXed5dsSzc2xGJZjFgh8antYSLpY4Kewr1yemACjv36QXLf6kpECnmGH/HcJVpVqzqnlD7V2vPwhFekuIihH7x+iqpd8i3NIlq9VE9icO7ohFhhIbDM86ta9Td5IADR3/PestTVCWKL7k2/dmpDKE=; Message-ID: 20050210163020.88945.qmail@web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: from [155.212.77.162] by web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:30:20 PST Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:30:20 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Lorrey mlorrey@yahoo.com Subject: Re: You enquired? To: Enoch Root enochroot@societaseruditorum.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
--- Enoch Root enochroot@societaseruditorum.org wrote: I noticed you were knocking at my door. Is there something I can do for you?
I'm an editor of Neal Stephenson's www.metaweb.com and was looking into any real organizations by the name of Societas Eruditorum. Is your domain associated with eruditorum.org as well?
How is recruitment these days?"
Interesting...
The Second Incident
Received another note from the elusive Enoch Root at societaseruditorum.org:
X-Apparently-To: mlorrey@yahoo.com via 68.142.200.139; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:12:06 -0800 X-YahooFilteredBulk: 24.85.76.137 Authentication-Results: mta174.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=societaseruditorum.org; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) X-Originating-IP: [24.85.76.137] Return-Path: enochroot@societaseruditorum.org Received: from 24.85.76.137 (EHLO VAULT) (24.85.76.137) by mta174.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:12:06 -0800 Received: from VAULT.vc.shawcable.net ([24.85.76.137]) by VAULT (602LAN SUITE 2004) id 30bff770 for mlorrey@yahoo.com; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 1:11:19 -0800 From: "Enoch Root" enochroot@societaseruditorum.org Add to Address Book To: mlorrey@yahoo.com Subject: You inquiry Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:11:18 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0018_01C51232.16E55440" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-index: AcUSdSQjH0H1kgsKSw2lphuZ71usug== Content-Length: 1923
You said you were sent to Societas Eruditorum by Metaweb. I wonder how this could be. What was your intent? If you will indulge my curiosity, perhaps yours may be satisfied also.
Enoch
PS The server routing my email suffered a failure shortly after my first response to you, which you may or may not have received. I apologize if you attempted but were unable to reply to that email.
Following my prior attempt to email him. I made some page serve requests to his domain, using the filename space as message space, expecting that he seems to check access logs.