Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:30:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> Cc: root@isis.dynip.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEATH TO SPAMMERS (Re: Serving spammers right (was: REMOVE MY NAME!)) Message-ID: <19990201113055.D8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36B44DBD.A23E932C@seattleu.edu>; from Eric Hodel on Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 04:34:05AM -0800 References: <199901311228.PAA01816@isis.dynip.com> <36B44DBD.A23E932C@seattleu.edu>
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On Sunday, 31 January 1999 at 4:34:05 -0800, Eric Hodel wrote: > Don't you know that it is rather unwise to mail as root? It's difficult to tell, but it appears to be his name. > Could you send a copy of this spam to the list? That may help a great > deal, rather than insulting a list of many, many people. The real problem is that you didn't see what he was talking about. Neither did you: you left people to guess what you're talking about. In fact, he did quote something: > On 31 Jan, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Funny how spammers can't take their own medicine, isn't it? > Death to ALL SPAMMERS. > > (lots of inappropriate threats omitted). I think you're both misunderstanding: root for sending out such a bloodthirsty message, which most people will understand is not intended for them, and you for sending a followup completely devoid of context. Can we now get back to the scheduled topics? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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