On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:23 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Tim wrote: > > Tim: > >>> Good grief, it's bloody obvious if you apply a tiny amount of thought to > >>> it. How stupid does one have to be to not realise that someone who > >>> doesn't identify themselves does not want to be identified? > > > > John Summerfield: > >> Calm down Tim; if you didn't want to be identified, you've made several > >> mistakes, the most recent biting when I suggested the localhost name. > >> All _I_ knew for certain was where your email entered the Internet. > > > > I'm only mildly annoyed. I'm more surprised, than anything else, that > > you'd do something so daft. > > > > I make a trivial effort to remain relatively anonymous, and avoid the > > usual spam harvesters. It doesn't stop those who know what they're > > doing from working things out, but I'd expect that such people would > > know better than to do what you did. > > The email address I suggested is unusable outside your mail server. See > what the host IP address is. That was the key point to my suggestion. > > > > > >>> I do use my real name, just not all of it. E-mail addresses, the user > >>> account name part (left of the @ sign), are not names. Or should we > >>> call you "Debian"? > > > >> Please yourself, spammers did. I actually created that address to use in > >> connexion with the taroon beta, to protect my more usual email addresses > >> from spammers. > > > > On other mailing lists, where I had decided to let people contact me, I > > had an e-mail address beginning with "sir". At least it forced a bit of > > manners on to address harvesting spammers, such junk mail came addressed > > to me as "dear sir". ;-) 'twas nothing more than a private joke, > > though. > > <-> > > > > >>> Consider yourself privileged, Debby, ;-) that I let strangers refer to > >>> me by my first name, rather than sir, or mister in front of my surname. > > > >> From my viewpoint, how would you describe your attitude now? > > > > It's called paying someone out for doing two things as daft as you did. > > Not respecting anonymity, then going on to talk to me about using > > pseudonyms when I was already using my real name, and not using any > > pseudonyms. If you'd looked a bit harder, you'd have noticed those > > points. > > It's perfectly possible that you've overlooked something, maybe that the > email address I used is unusable, though it's in your power to change > that when you need to receive its email to subscribe to a list. > > > If I was going to flame you, I'd be far more scathing. ---- aussie aussie aussie oy oy oy are you guys having fun? Craig
