[HPFGU-OTChatter] A note about the SPAM flags

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

Iggy McSnurd wrote:

>With all due respect in return, I have three brief comments.
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>1 - What I described about the virus was something I read in a news
>story from Yahoo.
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So you should put link to it, instead of trying to describe it using 
your own words. Linux was probably mentioned because attacked site is 
sco.com. SCO is a company which is suing IBM and Linux users over 
alleged violation of SCO's Intellectual Properties (see 
http://www.groklaw.net). Some sources claims that this virus was written 
by some disgruntled Linux users, while majority believe it was some 
spammers works -- as that group benefits from this type of viruses.

>2 - What I mentioned about the Spam Guard is going from what's in
>Yahoo's help-files about it.
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True. But once again, you should stick to pointing appropriate link 
instead of trying to describe it in your own words. The Yahoo help files 
are enough technically wrong without being transformed by another person.

>And 
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>3 - If you know enough to so politely inform me about how wrong I am,
>why didn't you step up and try to advise people about what the problem
>is when it first started popping up, rather than waiting for someone to
>post what you apparently have corrected as erroneous information?
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Because:
a) I was in work, so I was able only to reply with very short message 
about attachments (I am in Central European Time zone),
b) OT-Chatter is, I believe, not the right group designed for discussing 
technical matters (more appropriate should be Feedback)
c) It is Admin's responsibility to issue warnings regarding technical 
issues, unauthorized warnings often create more disinformations than 
informations,
d) As not being an Admin, I possibly does not have enough knowledge 
about this. Admins, I think, receive more detailed messages about what 
goes 'under the hood' of lists.
e) I believe that Admin Team is working on that problem right now,
f) If Admin's needed help they would ask for it -- at least one Admin 
Team member know that my skills are always at HP4GU's service.

>'nuff said, and no more will be said from me.
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 From me too. However I would appreciate semi-official statement from 
Admins.

Sorry, If  I was rude (in this and previous message), it was not my 
intention -- English is not my native language (see headers of this 
message).
BTW see this interesting article in NYT: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/technology/05VIRU.html (reg. required) 
-- quoting "the geeks' patience is growing thin" ;-)

Regards,


-- 
Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope (Aeschylus, Agamemnon)