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.
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Craig