On Tue, 02 May 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Tue May 02 2000 at 22:01, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
>
> > I would recommend that everyone who received this forward it back to Mr. Pio
> > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to make the point that this is unacceptable behaviour.
>
> No, don't do that. The sysadmin there will need to cope with the
> problem, it's not his fault. And in all likelyhood there is no
> "hspio" user there at all, or if there is then it has been forged.
>
> If such a user/person does exist, then it is likely that he has
> already been kicked off that system.
>
> I'm a sysadmin, and this has happened to me. The real culprit of that
> incident lived on the other side of the world, yet we got to deal with
> the aftermath he created by what he did. It could have been a lot
> worse, but it did make life unpleasant for us.
>
> > Just once each should suffice, and not contravene any usage policies :-).
> >
> > I did... Call it distributed spam negative reinforcement. :-) :-) :-}
> > Let's hope this will be sufficient to reinforce the lesson
> > about what not to do on public technical mailing lists.
>
> You have a point, but you are in all likelyhood making life very
> difficult for the innocent.
>
> The BEST thing to do about this sort of spam is to silently ignore
> them as you hit the delete button.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
Good point... Sorry. I was on a few of those lists and got mighty
po'd.
cheers,
--dr
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