Ha, I think it's hilarious when people do this. Also stupid, but if it weren't for stupid people, who would we have to laugh at? :D
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 15:54 +0100, Daniel wrote: > It's not the first, and it won't be the last. > > Y'know, if I was a malicious individual I might lurk the Debian security > mailing lists until I saw such an announcement, and then wait for a security > vulnerability, for example [DSA 2998-1] to be posted thereafter. Deducing > that the individual or their organisation ran Debian, I might then scan or > probe the domain which issued to vacation mail to ascertain if they were > vulnerable. Having all the information I needed to take advantage of the > vulnerability in the DSA, I might then attack said individual or their > organisation, safe in the knowledge that they would not be back in the office > to deal with the problem until August 25th. Such vacation mails would make my > job alot easier. > > IT is fortunate for the senders of such mails that I am not a malicious > individual. > > Best regards, > > Daniel > > On 6 Aug 2014, at 09:49, Grond wrote: > > > Bugger, but someone has *reeaally* poor manners. > > > > A vacation notice to a mailing list? > > I mean; really? > > > > I do *hope* that we will not be spammed by this until > > August 25th. > > > > (I realize that this rant may not meet > > minimum notability for this list.) > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:13:31PM +0200, programac...@sf-informatica.com > > wrote: > >> Els missatges enviats a aquesta adreça de correu no s'atendran fins al 25 > >> d'agost. Si us plau, si és urgent, posi's en contacte amb > >> urgenc...@sf-informatica.com. Disculpi les molèsties. > >> > >> Los mensajes enviados a esta dirección de correo no se atenderán hasta el > >> 25 de agosto. Por favor, si es urgente, póngase en contacto con > >> urgenc...@sf-informatica.com. Disculpe las molestias. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >> listmas...@lists.debian.org > >> Archive: > >> https://lists.debian.org/20140805181331.32e066041d...@11vs2.vspain.net > > > > -- > > > > Attached is my PGP public key. > > Primary key fingerprint: B7C7 AD66 D9AF 4348 0238 168E 2C53 D8FA 55D8 9FD9 > > > > If you have a PGP key (and a minute to spare) > > please send it in reply to this email. > > > > If you have no idea what PGP is, feel free > > to ignore all this gobbledegook. > > <Mail Attachment> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1407426504.2771.0.ca...@jfergusdeb.proofpoint.com
