Spam from Verisign

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

I got spam from Verisign today.

I was all set to just send out a message noting the fact, and sarcastically wondering 
why it was that Verisign was suddenly (I can't recall getting any spam from them 
before, although lots of junk mail) eager to offer me 20% off SSL certificates.  
The headers on the spam seemed to show an origin at Verisign.

But then, some of the URLs in the body of the message didn't.  They were coming 
from a rsys1.net domain.  Owned by:
RESPONSYS Inc. hostmaster () responsys com
900 Cherry Avenue, 5th Floor, San Bruno, CA 94066   US
650-745-1700 fax: 650-745-1701 

responsys.com appears to be your common-or-garden "email marketing" 
(commercial spam) firm, and Verisign/Symantec may, very well, be trying to cash 
in on the Diginotar debacle as quickly as possible.  But it may be equally possible 
that someone else is trying to take quick advantage of the situation.  Does anyone 
have any more detailed information on them?

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