On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:40:38 -0400
Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[SNIP]
Just so that I am clear on your issue here: You believe it is okay
for you to put your linkedin URL in your .sig, but Gadi must not be
allowed to put it at the top of a post?
Yes, I think that's exactly right. It's a statement of what the sender
perceives to be important about the email. I read email for the
I agree, which is why this fluke in not deleting the last line with ctrk+k
as PINE appends signature lines at the top of the post by default--was
awkward. Good thing I don't much get deterred by awkward.
Still, I bet this is going to be a huge thread yet again. No one
appends any URL at the footer--not even me! ;) But folks with no content
to contribute would naturally jump at it like they would at even just a
typo.
I suppose it is only natural when you become a celebrity of any sort--you
draw all sorts of attention. At first my thick skin helped, nowadays I
just find it amusing.
Folks flooded mailing lists spoofing my name (creating ASCII art of Beavis
or a swastika) using the subject lines. They flooded yet again, with furry
porn pictures attached. They launched fan blogs, created an Encyclopedia
Dramatica entry...
I've had a comic strip made about me, a song written about me, a fake
craigslist entry... all of course, serving as a boost to my ego--knowing
now I must have made it! ;-)
There was a blackhat presentation which in part was about how someone
faked a social network account being me, and how he almost got an
informationweek interview as me out of it--I was on to him.
Most recently, someone created a comic-strip in ASCII about me (very
funny, but R rated, so don't go if you find that type of thing offensive).
It's from the now I know I've made it! department:
http://fr.pastebin.ca/raw/1094119
To wrap this up, I don't often (at all) use signature lines, but I do have
them and out of habit delete them with almost every new posting from the
footer.
I had two VERY self-depricating (and very funny) quotes, before, which
also were not often used, anyone remember?
1.
beepbeep it, i leave work, stop reading sec lists and im still hearing
gadi - HD Moore to Gadi Evron on IM, on Gadi's interview on npr, March
2007.
2.
*FART*
-- Avi Freedman to Gadi Evron in a Chinese restaurant, Boston 2007.
To even things out, my new barely ever used footer signature, is:
-
You don't need your firewalls! Gadi is Israel's firewall.
-- Itzik (Isaac) Cohen, Computers czar, Senior Deputy to the Accountant
General,
Israel's Ministry of Finance, at the government's CIO conference, 2005.
(after two very funny self-deprication quotes, time to even things up!)
My profile and resume:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gadievron
--
So, I missed one line and it stuck at the footer and no one noticed it
except the trolls. Now that the awkward moment is over and I made the
unnecessary yet required explanation... can we move on?
I really should use the man page and see how I move the signature from the
footer in PINE.
Thanks for the free advertisement of my resume, trolls! Appreciated.
Gadi.
content; having the URL at the top is an assertion by the poster that
he thinks his resume is more important than what he says. (Yes, I know
some of you are about to hit reply to say maybe it is from Gadi.
Don't bother -- what he says is often quite valuable.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
