Mr. Bernstein:
The message below, which convincingly appears to have been sent by you, is
an attempt to forge email from my address. This is ABSOLUTELY
UNACCEPTABLE, no matter what your reason might have been.
For your information, your original posting was being held for review
because the address you posted it from (djb@koobera.math.uic.edu) didn't
match the address you are subscribed to the list with
(djb-hey-why-the-fuck-doesnt-majordomo-accept-slashes@koobera.math.uic.edu,
which is apparently the result of some previous tantrum on your part).
List-Managers has been set to allow postings only from subscribers for
quite some time, due to the high volume of spam that was being targetted at
the list. Normally, we review such diverted postings every few days, and
your announcement would have been posted then. The person who usually
handles that task, however, has been out of the country all month, and I
haven't had time to deal with it myself, so we're a little slower than
normal right now.
If you had contacted me, instead of immediately trying to forge email from
me, I would have been happy to explain the situation to you, and to go dig
out and deal with the message that was being held for review.
Your forged message (the first part of which is included below) was also
intercepted and held for review. I won't tell you why, because I'm sure
that would simply encourage you to try again.
This behavior is absolutely, unequivocally inappropriate, and will not be
tolerated. Knock it off.
-Brent
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From: brent@greatcircle.com (yeah right)
To: list-managers@greatcircle.com
Subject: announcing list-protection list
(This message is actually from Dan Bernstein, djb@koobera.math.uic.edu.
The first copy was silently diverted by majordomo since it wasn't from
my subscription address. So now I'm using a subscription address. This
illustrates both the inconvenience and the futility of security through
obscurity.)
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Brent Chapman Internet/intranet training and consulting,
Brent@GreatCircle.COM specializing in network design and security.
Great Circle Associates,Inc. Visit us at http://www.greatcircle.com/
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