[107831] in Cypherpunks
Re: Re: CDR: hey you never called me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Jan 24 23:43:05 1999
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:30:26 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> > Again, some clueless asshole that can't tell the difference
> > between solicited responses and Unsolicited spam mouths off.
>
>Bullshit. I got the same *unsolicited* email at one of my own
>addresses.
>
>But I've got to say that the original 12-line spam was much *less*
>objectionable than the 404-line spam response from a particular CDR
>operator...
You totally missed the joke. I don't know the identity of the author
whose message you quoted but he was making a stab at another list
member who has engaged in several arguments on the list about how all
the crap we get is okay because it's 'solicited.' The line you quoted is
quoted exactly- typos and all- from something Paul wrote about four or
five months ago.
This was a pretty obvious parody to anybody who read the original
flame war. Paul has made a good number of enemies and it seems that
they eventually give up once the discussion gets sufficiently stupid
(regardless of whose fault it is). It's obviously several anonymous
posters given grammar, spelling, agenda and opinions. Some of it
he deserves and some of it he doesn't.
Really it was a obvious parody, even if you didn't recognize the last
line as ROT13 or remembered the discussion.
I don't know if I would have noticed this if I hadn't learned to
decypher ROT13 in my head years ago so I don't fault anybody but look
at what the last line of the message resolves to. If you don't have a
ROT13 decoder then write out the alphabet and do it manually.
> Cnhy U. Zreevyy
Paul H. Merrill
About xroads.com I think their mail system is looking at it like
this.
Somebody sends them mail and it's flagged a spam. How it is flagged
as spam isn't important because it seems to be working. They send a
complaint back to who the mail is actually from which is always the
CDR. It therefore winds up on the list and is sent to all the list
members which means that their 404-line spam is sent to
several hundred list members and back to their site. This is all
really stupid since spammers almost never use their real
address. Meanwhile they do the same thing they're claiming to be
against. Spamming.
Nabalzbhf
