From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 11:25:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB0216A403 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from breath@unix.net) Received: from mtsnet.ru (mts3.mtsnet.ru [213.87.0.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A2C13C45A for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:25:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from breath@unix.net) Received: from [84.17.224.22] (HELO breathpoint.home) by mtsnet.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with SMTP id 560934; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:25:19 +0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:17:33 +0400 From: Yuri Grebenkin To: soralx@cydem.org, Kevin Kinsey Message-Id: <20070411151733.708bf320.breath@unix.net> In-Reply-To: <20070410225507.3942fe39@soralx.cydem.org> References: <76BA0043-1D47-42FB-AB77-BB6C7A69E792@mac.com> <461BCB47.4080504@daleco.biz> <20070411025236.275f40de.breath@unix.net> <20070410225507.3942fe39@soralx.cydem.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Erroneous delivery of list e-mail (was Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:25:51 -0000 On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:55:07 -0700 soralx@cydem.org wrote: > > > I'd like everyone to note that I'm merely curious; this is the > > > fourth person in 24 hours to say "why in the world am I getting > > > these e-mails?" or "please unsubscribe me", including 2 G-mail > > do you think that it wasn't simply spam? I once got a finely crafted > spam with quoutes from the lists, which I read almost halfway before > realizing that I was losing the thread far too often, and maybe not > because of my logic unit being particularly slow that day... > > Maybe what we're seeing is an emergent behaviour of the Internet -- > distributed intelligence that got lonely and bored and wants to > chat? :-o I can't seem to think of a sane reason to send out messages > full of garbage that have a chance of being deleted close to 100%. > Doing that on a massive scale seems to me to be beyond any logic or > reason. > > > > Kevin Kinsey But those people seem to be so human and unique. Ahh... After all, not every minute you get such cuties here :-). - Yuri