[Editors] Fwd: Fwd: Are you in the MIT Aeronautics/Astronautics Department?

[Sara Egan]

it certainly looks and sounds rather dodgy... however, he is find-able  
at the oxford univ. website.

postdoc richard price

link to his supervisor- http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/tim_williamson
http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardprice
http://oxford.academia.edu/Departments/Philosophy
http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2007/04/20/richard-price/

still, a rather casual and un-official looking message.

~sara


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Monique Yeaton <myeaton at mit.edu>
> Date: March 26, 2010 10:37:47 AM EDT
> To: Violeta Ivanova <violeta at mit.edu>
> Cc: "editors at mit.edu" <editors at mit.edu>, "engineering-communicators at mit.edu 
> " <engineering-communicators at mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Editors] Fwd: Are you in the MIT Aeronautics/ 
> Astronautics Department?
>
> I am on the IT Security team in IS&T. This looks very fishy to me.  
> I'll run it by my security analysts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Monique
>
> =========================
> Monique Yeaton
> IT Security Awareness Consultant
> MIT Information Services & Technology (IS&T)
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>
>
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Violeta Ivanova wrote:
>
>> Bill et al.,
>>
>> I would forward this to IS&T for security check. It seems very  
>> fishy to me. I would not follow any of the links in the original  
>> email.
>>
>> A domain name such as academia.edu must cost an arm and a leg. If  
>> this is "legit", they must pay post-docs really well in Oxford. :)
>>
>> Happy Friday!
>>
>> Violeta
>>
>> __
>>
>> Violeta M. Ivanova Ph.D.
>> http://web.mit.edu/violeta/www
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Bill Litant wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all:
>>> An AeroAstro faculty member received this, forwarded it to me, and  
>>> asked if it is "legit." From my examination, while it appears to  
>>> be in its nascent stages, it looks like the developer put some  
>>> serious time and thought into the site. While it's too early to  
>>> tell if there will be any value to the site, I can't think of any  
>>> reason not to tell him to avoid placing his name on it. Have any  
>>> of you had any contact with this person or know anything else  
>>> about the site?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> B ill
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Are you in the MIT
>>>> Aeronautics/Astronautics Department?
>>>> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:22:20 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> From: Richard Price <richard.price at academia.edu>
>>>>
>>>> I am post-doc in philosophy at Oxford. I am
>>>> also the founder of Academia.edu, which is a
>>>> global directory of academics, showing who is
>>>> working at what departments.
>>>>
>>>> We are trying to fill out the directory, and
>>>> already Stephen Hawking, Paul Krugman, Noam
>>>> Chomsky and Richard Dawkins have signed up.
>>>> We checked your department directory and we
>>>> think you fit into the directory in the MIT
>>>> Aeronautics/Astronautics Department, but we
>>>> aren't sure. Your status is currently listed
>>>> as 'Unknown'. Could you confirm that you are
>>>> a member of this department by following one
>>>> of the links below?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I am in the MIT Aeronautics/Astronautics
>>>> Department:
>>>> http://mit.academia.edu/Yes-Jonathan-P-How-is-a-member-of-MIT-Aeronautics-Astronautics
>>>>
>>>> No, the department directory is incorrect, I
>>>> am not in the MIT Aeronautics/Astronautics
>>>> Department:
>>>> http://mit.academia.edu/Remove-Jonathan-P-How-from-MIT-Aeronautics-Astronautics
>>>>
>>>> There are currently 4 other members who have
>>>> confirmed their membership of MIT Aeronautics
>>>> Astronautics: Javier Garcia, Buy Lortab,
>>>> Jorge Cañizales and Kiril Sakaliyski.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Richard
>>>> http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
>>>>
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