Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:31:54 -0500 (EST) From: __Clint__ <clint@acm.vt.edu> To: brian-freebsd-01@clapper.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ! why? [original emails enclosed: last post hopefully] Message-ID: <20040325152556.M73389-100000@cowpie.acm.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403252019.i2PKJSKi063258@z.inside.clapper.org>
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> Or, if you prefer a smaller URL: http://tinyurl.com/24lel I'll be damned. THANK YOU for getting to the bottom of this. As of opening this URL, I official retract all my previous statements that I'd never heard of the list. That WAS me. Sorry. I had no clue when I posted that bug report that I'd be hurting myself more than helping others. It's a shame what the spammers have done to the intrnet. Hopefully tar was at least fixed. > 5. There's no evidence that anyone deliberately sold your address to > spammers. Certainly, it's highly unlikely that anyone officially > connected with FreeBSD would ever do something like that. At this point, I believe you, and apologize to the whole list for thinking freebsd sold my address. (But not for posting to the list, since I didn't know that's what I was doing.) > Please direct your ire in a more appropriate direction. Okay.... How bout them republicans? <kidding> > 4. You chose to use an address variant that's tied closely to your regular > address. Thus, when the variant address was compromised, you can't > disable it without also disabling your regular email address. I can. I just make a procmail filter for that variant to go directly to my spam folder. I'm still glad I at least know why this happened. Thanks. P.S. I'd say it's still freebsd's fault for having a bug in tar... Just kidding! Just kidding! Just kidding! Over. And out. -Clint
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