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Re: Black Hole Vixie/RBL

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Thu Nov 19 19:41:11 1998

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:07:23 -0600
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
To: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@dal.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981119141045.53229@dragonlair.dal.net>; from Dalvenjah FoxFire on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:10:45PM -0800

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:10:45PM -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:09:45AM -0800, Paul Vixie put this into my mailbox:
> 
> > I will at some point today drink enough coffee to gain the self control it
> > would take to not answer crazies.  Because that time has not yet come, I can
> > only hope that you, the reader, will delete this message without reading any
> > further.
> 
> There are two entries in my .procmailrc that help prevent me from replying
> to the nutbags. Here they are, for anyone else's use:
> 
> :0                                               
> * ^From:.*fleming@unety\.net
> /dev/null
> 
> :0
> * ^From:.*bob@fcn\.net
> /dev/null
> 
> I find reading mail much more worthwhile after these filters are applied.
> Not only do I have to wade through less crap, but the content seems more
> intelligent, as well.

You know, I have Bob black-holed here as well.

However, the dirtbag had to post to NANOG, which I have white-listed in my
personal "bite me" list.

So guess what - I got a bunch of his shit anyway.

Sigh.... sometmies you can't win for losing.

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I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give
up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.

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