"Matthew S. Hallacy" wrote: > > This is not a list issue, nor does anyone on the list care. > Put me down as caring. Moreover, as a long-time participant in this forum, I'm particularly concerned about even anecdotal evidence that one of our posters is mounting an attack on another.
> Please take your blathering back to IRC. > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=denigrate > It saddens me that ostensible college students have grammar problems, but that stoops to an "ad hominem" attack. Please cease. Eric Kuhnke wrote: >... > Since you are "Director of Security", I will offer you some advice: > > 1) Cease your incessant shrieking as it is neither warranted nor desired on this > list. > 2) It is not possible to "denigrate" to anything. > 3) Grow up. > Based on the web pages at http://2mbit.com/ and http://www.sosdg.org/, I see an effort to improve the community not found at either http://www.poptix.net nor http://techmonkeys.org/. Mayhap all persons involved are young. Never-the-less, I'd like to encourage security awareness. I remember a decade ago, I was an immortal on a local MUD, and helped a promising fellow there who eventually went to work for rediris.es. > Andrew D Kirch wrote: > > Last night in conjunction with the attacks on my DSL line and the > Summit Open Source Development Group, I received a threatening phone > call on my home business line at 1:44 in the morning (GMT-5 CST > Indiana-East). My roommate answered the call, and the dialog was > simply "how's your DSL B----!", then the caller hung up. > This evening my roommate informed me of the call, and told me that > the caller had not blocked caller ID, the number in question being > 320-282-5940. I tracked this number to a T Mobile cellphone in > St Cloud, MN. Thinking this might be the kiddie responsible for the > attack I made a *67 call back. > I was greeted with the voice mail of Matthew Hallacy (AKA poptix) who > has used this forum to take cheap shots at myself and my staff > repeatedly. Now he has denigrated to simple threats and harassment > off list that didn't even get to me but to my roommate who is entirely > uninvolved in this. > I must note that this incident greatly saddened me, as I would have > thought that all on this list have suffered Denial of Service attacks, > and understand the seriousness and severity of these attacks, > obviously one of us doesn't get it. > please contact me if you have questions regarding this incident. > I'd say you need to contact your FBI office. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32