On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:30:25 +0100, Rowland wrote in message <20190411133025.60dab...@devstation.samdom.example.com>:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:01:15 +0200 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:27:08PM +0200, Edward Bartolo via Dng > > wrote: > > > > > [ ... ] That prank was completely misplaced: as someone replied, > > >one does not joke with security. The latter can mean lost > > >business. > > > > Only if people are too stupid to understand the idea behind what > > is called a backup of computer systems. Or because they're too > > negilent to create them. Again: Backup. > > The problem isn't people who post on here not understanding the idea, > it was people browsing the Devuan webpage to get information who > 'found' the joke and thought it was true. > > I have said it before and I will say it again, the internet isn't > really the place for an April fools joke, I saw the webpage on the > 31st March and the 'joke' was still up late on the 1st April. Where I > come from, this means the 'joke' rebounds on the perpetrator. > > > > > > > > >Why is it so hard to understand this? > > > > See above. And because it was a joke. > > > See above, because it was a poor joke. > > I have great respect and admiration for Katolaz and the work he has > done on Devuan and hope that he reconsiders leaving Devuan, but he > also needs to understand that you do not joke with security. > > The main problem that I saw was, the idiot who incessantly demanded > the perpetrator was sacked, this was way over the top, especially > when the joke was revealed (note, I was completely taken in by the > 'joke', probably because I didn't expect it to happen to something so > important), once it was revealed as a joke, I felt extremely stupid. ..me, I had had a too long day, I just killed my mirror cron job, started a checksum check and hit bed, and woke up to the happy news it had been apologised so we had no problem to fix. :o) > I did however think it should never have happened. > > Rowland ..agreed. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
