From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 8 21:41:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9F114C1B for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 21:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA87813; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 06:41:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 06:41:18 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001090541.GAA87813@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load spike strangeness X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <859123$1c9d$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD wrote in list.freebsd-chat: >> FreeBSD wrote in list.freebsd-stable: >> >> FreeBSD wrote in list.freebsd-stable: >> >> > Overclocking is *NEVER* recommended >> >> >> >> Neither is posting anonymously (without a realname). >> > >> > Since when does an E-mail address require a "realname"? >> >> It is not required, but it is a matter of good practice, >> politeness, and netiquette. It's a matter of being taken >> serious, and of encouraging people to communicate. This >> is not a security issue at all. > > Suggesting people use their real names in mailing lists, seems like a > security issue to me, while it's not an exploit, it's not safe or smart > (again IMHO). You have yet to explain why. >> You will not receive less spam when hiding your real name. >> And using a real name does not prevent you from creating a >> new account, if you think that's necessary. > > No but it does help in preventing identity theft, however little. Identity theft?!? I'll better not comment on that, because I think I'm unable to put it into words that would not sound like flaming. I'm certainly not trying to flame. I only said that posting anonymously is not recommended, which is a truth (you _did_ read the netiquette, did you?). And 99% of the posters get it right, obviously. Of course you can do what you want. But still, it's not right, IMO. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message