Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:28:12 -0700 From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using 1 machine (a FreeBSD one) to connect 2 pcs to the net via Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980723202812.00825180@mx.serv.net> In-Reply-To: <19980724110748.R716@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19980722174539.00837850@mx.serv.net> <XFMail.980722122711.purebeef@shaw.wave.ca> <3.0.5.32.19980722174539.00837850@mx.serv.net>
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The threat to mailbomb was rather tongue-in-cheek (I thought the "Sam's spam sandwich" thing would make that fairly clear but I guess not). However, it IRRITATES me to receive 3 to 5 Email attachments from someone I don't know (it wasn't the message, it was the barrage of attachments). That person could have done one of two other things: (1) Included them as part of the main Email (2) Asked the question first, and sent the attachments to the person who chose to answer the question (#2 would have been the best idea, I think). I just don't like a bunch of attachments in my \download directory without my permission, for all sorts of reasons. Potential trojan horses and viruses are one (I don't audit my \download directory that regularly and don't want a bunch of unknown junk there). Also, consider this - if he had chosen to include three or four 1.5 meg binary kernels instead for someone to debug for him, would you have looked at it slightly differently? Sorry.. irritation is irritation. Emails don't irritate me - a bunch of attachments from some I don't know do. I didn't really mean it about the mailbombing thing. At 11:07 AM 7/24/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Grrrrrrrrrrrr...... > >Tim, we asked you to behave yourself before. You said you would. >This message isn't really in keeping with your promise. Please don't >start flaming again. If you don't like the messages you get on a >mailing list, either put up with it or unsubscribe from the mailing >list. > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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