On March 30, 2004 11:07 am, madhon wrote: > Fair enough i didnt notice that (wasnt looking that much either) > > > Now would you mind telling me how useful your post was? > > would you mind telling me how usefull that attitude is ?
whoah ... there's only two things worse than being inundated with spam; (1) being inundated with tit-for-tats that escalate into flame-wars through a strange interplay of ASCII's inability to convey emotive context and an ego's inability to remain rational in a public forum. (2) when (1) stems from trying to deal with an inundation of spam. John, thanks for trying to deal with the problem. Madhon, chill - you pestered John on the mail list because you hadn't noticed the CC line, a simple ack would have calmly ended things there. John's dealing with spam, like every other frustrated list user these days, so you'd expect him to get irritable when someone adds to the bandwidth by (mistakenly) hassling him for having tried to help - why bait further and risk turning an anti-spam effort into a flame-war? (Note, the question is rhetorical, I don't need a response unless it's to do something useful for modssl, against spam, or both). FWIW, I've made far worse cock-ups on public lists than you just did, and I'm sure I've many more in store for me yet, so don't feel attacked to have goofed up (and therefore, don't feel any need to counter-attack). I apologise for adding to the bandwidth, but I think this kind of frustration is simmering everywhere right now with the amount of spam and worms/virii floating round - we need to adjust our methods for handling this if we're to avoid crossing the noise-to-signal event horizon that usenet long since disappeared over. The obvious starting point is to not add to the list noise, except perhaps to collaborate on solving the problem ... ... so to add to what John already contributed, I'd like to suggest that those of you who are pissed about this sort of thing should learn to read and analyse mail headers (if you don't already know how) and do what John just did. If you don't know or you're not sure what you're doing, wait for someone to do what John did (and perhaps wait a while in case someone else finds a problem or correction) and then *privately* do the same - ie. mail the appropriate abuse-reporting address ([EMAIL PROTECTED] in this case). Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
