{"id":43,"date":"2004-06-25T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=43"},"modified":"2004-06-25T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T19:39:48","slug":"is-that-fau-for-faux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Is that “Fau” for “Faux”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got the following e-mail:<\/p>\n

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:40:58 +0200
\nFrom: fau.alex (fau.alex@wanadoo.fr)
\nTo: woit@cpw.math.columbia.edu
\nSubject: Mr Woit<\/p>\n

hi,
\nI am a french student and I will go in 1re(in France) the next year
\nand I want to speak with specialists because I want to work in science
\nwhen I will be adult … That’s why I write to you !
\nI want to know who are you ? What did you study, …
\nThanks in advance for your answer
\nBest regards
\nAlexandre Faure<\/p>\n

At first I thought “Oh yes, just another in the avalanche of fan-mail. Wonder if I should take the time to respond?” Then, looking more carefully at the HTML version of the e-mail, I found an embedded link at the bottom:<\/p>\n

href=\"mailto:liu-yang.imp@th-phys.edu.hk\"<\/pre>\n
That address looks awfully familiar<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just got the following e-mail: Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:40:58 +0200 From: fau.alex (fau.alex@wanadoo.fr) To: woit@cpw.math.columbia.edu Subject: Mr Woit hi, I am a french student and I will go in 1re(in France) the next year and I want to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}