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Re: spam on CIS: sendmail exploit used commercially ?
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > Fine. And I'll leave this group too effective immidietly because I
> > feel embaraced time and again to be associated with this forum every
> > time I see your rude, childish, paternalistic and sometimes stupid
> > answers.
>
> Oh, are you saying I am worse than marc? you obviously didn't mind HIS
> posts at the time....
>
> Excuse me, but spamming on CIS is not really connected to Israel, or
> linux, even remotely.
>
>
> Thanks for sharing your feelings though. if there is anyone else on the
> list who finds my posts in any way redundant, useless, uninformative,
> insulting or generally a nuesence please tell me in PRIVATE mail and I'll
> see that this is fixed. This is the first complaint so far.
So far I had no problems with Ira Abramov's messages. Most of the stuff
which he posts is interesting (I am NOT interested in the lists of updated
RPMs but can live with this thanks to the Big 'D' key) and I welcome the
filtering service which is provided by him, and which saves me the need to
read myself 1000 Linux related messages a day.
Apparently the group is again at phase 5 of the nature mailing list's
lifecycle. The relevant passages are quoted below:
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5. Discomfort with diversity (the number of messages increases
dramatically; not every thread is fascinating to every reader; people
start complaining about the signal-to-noise ratio; person 1 threatens
to quit if *other* people don't limit discussion to person 1's pet
topic; person 2 agrees with person 1; person 3 tells 1 & 2 to lighten
up; more bandwidth is wasted complaining about off-topic threads than
is used for the threads themselves; everyone gets annoyed).
6a. Smug complacency and stagnation (the purists flame everyone who asks
an 'old' question or responds with humor to a serious post; newbies
are rebuffed; traffic drops to a doze-producing level of a few minor
issues; all interesting discussions happen by private email and are
limited to a few participants; the purists spend lots of time
self-righteously congratulating each other on keeping off-topic
threads off the list).
OR
6b. Maturity (a few people quit in a huff; the rest of the participants
stay near stage 4, with stage 5 popping up briefly every few weeks;
many people wear out their second or third 'delete' key, but the list
lives contentedly ever after).
-=-=-> End of snippet
--- Omer
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