[PLUG] [OT] spam from apple?

[Bryan Murdock]

I got a strange email message today from, well, myself, or so it said
so in the from field.  I seem to have emailed myself about how cool
the Mac mini is.  Taking a closer look I saw this:

X-Gmail-Received: 98c594dbdb1c405e635e891d238b6626fca5294a
Delivered-To: bmurdock AT gmail.com
Received: by 10.54.26.49 with SMTP id 49cs5853wrz;
        Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:09 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.54.54.23 with SMTP id c23mr406832wra;
        Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:08 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <Introducing.the.Mac.mini at automail.apple.com>
Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22])
        by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 43si311153wri.2005.01.13.21.18.06;
        Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:08 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 17.254.13.22 is neither permitted
nor denied by domain of Introducing.the.Mac.mini at automail.apple.com)
Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225])
	by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0E5QkGr023098;
	Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:26:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com
 (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.17) with ESMTP id
<T6e7a5974f1118064e1424 at mailgate1.apple.com>;
 Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:05 -0800
Received: from automail.apple.com (automail.apple.com [17.129.100.65])
	by relay2.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0E5I3ik003359;
	Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:04 -0800 (PST)
Received: by automail.apple.com (8.12.7/8.12.2) id j0E5I8hO002809;
	Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:08 -0800 (PST)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:08 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <200501140518.j0E5I8hO002809 at automail.apple.com>
From: Barrie <bmurdock AT gmail.com>
To: kenmur AT gmail.com
Subject: Introducing the Mac mini
Cc: Barrie <bmurdock AT gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="boundary-line"
<message content snipped/>

Did Apple really forge the From: field and send me spam?  If so,
that's very disappointing.

Bryan

P.S. I've actually never gone by Barrie, and have no idea who kenmur
is either.  kenmur did reply to me with his thoughts on the mac mini,
oddly enough.