Great post, Paul. I, for one, like this site. Just got referred to it by several people who said I should subscribe to these lists in order to provide an additional study method for CCNP/DP and CCIE.
Thanks for the effort. Sincerely, Michael J. Doherty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Borghese" To: Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 23:47 Subject: Re: List Circuitbreakers fired [7:25791] > I do not get paid to manage groupstudy as it is a hobby of mine consuming > countless hours of time I should be spending with my family. Every vacation > we take gets somehow interrupted by some issue with groupstudy. Plus at > times the we could have really used the money spent on GroupStudy for other > things. Frankly my wife has been amazing supportive of the entire thing. > > I was talking to a friend of mine about the pains associated with managing > this site. He could not believe all the crap that I need to deal with on a > daily basis. So the next day I decided to keep a log of all of the things > that I needed to take care of for that particular day. I was going to > publish it but was later advised against it (see item 1). In a nutshell, on > this one particular day I spent most of the day (in between doing my "real" > job): > > 1. Dealing with a person who was threatening to sue me over a posting > another list member sent (under the belief that I am responsible). This > person was also suing the poster and the poster's company in an attempt to > get the guy fired. I know this because he insisted on courtesy copying > everyone involved on all correspondence. $100's of dollars in legal fees > later I learned that the entire thing was frivolous and the courts were > quite clear with numerous decisions that I am not liable. The case was > later dropped. But it is still not pleasant to think that your financial > future may be jepodized over a hobby. > > 2. Trying to help a person get off the list. I needed him to send me a > header of one of the e-mails but everytime I asked for the header he would > respond with obscenities and demand to be removed. But I needed the headers > to figure out how he was receiving the messages. He ended up bouncing all > of his messages (out of some sort of warped revenge) to my personal e-mail > account. But at least then I was able to view the header and get him off > the list. What I don't understand is if he was capable of bouncing e-mails > to a third account, why all the obscenity? He should have understood the > reasoning and just sent me the headers. > > 3. Tracked someone down at Cisco's request who broke the CCIE NDA. > > 4. Did an interview for a magazine for an article on GroupStudy.com. > > 5. Tracked down a hacker who had broken into a companies machine and was now > attacking groupstudy.com. After blocking that machine from GroupStudy, I > wrote to the contacts listed in the whois database. By some strange > coincidence the security offer of the company called me (who I had never > spoken to before) to discuss a matter concerning a posting on one of the > lists that needs to be removed. He had no idea there was this problem with > the hacker but was able to get me in contact with the technical people in > the company so I could explain. > > If this was a job, believe me I would quit! > > We do sell a limited amount of banner ads, but that money goes towards the > upkeep of the servers and lessens the burden of this site on me financially. > For a while I was spending close to $1000/month on bandwidth before InFlow > rescued us by giving the site free bandwidth. Now we seem to be at a break > even point and may even have enough money for that new shinny server I have > my eye on :-). > > So to make a long story short, Money OUT > Money IN while I believe most > jobs use the formula Money IN > Money OUT. But like a real job > AGGRAVATION>APPRECIATION. > > > Paul Borghese > > P.S. Please let's improve the list by using our real names instead of > cowarding behind a yahoo account and using anonymizer.com. If you are not > willing to say something with your name attached to it - it should not be > said. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hoe Moe" > To: > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:43 PM > Subject: Re: List Circuitbreakers fired [7:25791] > > > > How does doing your job make you a hero? I could see a > > firefighter or a solider but someone who manages a > > mailing list. Not a hero in my book. Besides he's > > probably making a pretty penny off this list. > > > > > > > > ""JG"" wrote: > > > > > > > I would like to thank mainly Paul Borghese, and lots > > of unsung 'heroes' > > > like Jonathan Hays in this case, for their > > relentless effort to keep this > > > list professional, up-to-par, and above all allowing > > us this communication > > > channel... > > > > > > THANX GUYS > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > Rgrds' > > > JG > > > > > > ---== Success, is where preparation, meets > > opportunity ==--- > > > > > > > > > ""Paul Borghese"" wrote in message > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > This list has some custom "circuit breakers" we > > have written that fire > > > when > > > > an > > > > abnormality is detected. In particular it will > > not allow more then a set > > > > number of messages to be attempted through the > > list. I would prefer to > > > have > > > > the list go down then have a loop fill our > > mailboxes. > > > > > > > > The site hk1.hn.org is misconfigured and was > > looping all messages back to > > > the > > > > list. The list filters such loops but it caused > > the circuit breakers to > > > fire > > > > as an anomaly. Hence very few messages were > > allowed to be sent today. > > > > > > > > I have manually resent the messages I believe were > > blocked. Sorry! I > > > want > > > > to thank Jonathan Hays for alerting me to the > > problem. > > > > > > > > Take care, > > > > > > > > Paul Borghese > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Find a job, post your resume. > > http://careers.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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