[63497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Mon Oct 6 22:21:14 2003
In-Reply-To: <68B15AD2-F85B-11D7-8428-000A95985058@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:18:27 -0400
To: Jeffrey S.Young <jsyoungnet@earthlink.net>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 8:15 PM -0400 10/6/03, Jeffrey S. Young wrote:
>It's a difficult thing for all of us when j.random users start to discover
>things like personal firewall. I had one threaten me personally with
>'investigation' by the FBI because "my system was attempting to break
>into his PC" He sent it to my account, no cc: to abuse.
I'm quite sure these are off topic. But I have to say my favorite
response came early in the wormalert hoax, when I was attempting to
respond by hand to people asking them to stop sending us email. I
received this reply.
>Gather evil into your briars
>Reflect negativity back to its sender
>all ill will or any blight
>Snatch from the air and send it back in flight
>Seek out the one who did this deed
>That it return to them thrice
>by magick's creed
>Hence more contact made by he
>spew his negativity back times three.
>
>So Mote It Be
I'd never been formally cursed before. Sure beats a DoS attack.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
