full-disclosure - Things that make you go "Hmmm"

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From: bounce at asmodeus.yi.org (Burke N. Hare)
Subject: Things that make you go "Hmmm"

Somebody looking to bite the hand the fed them?


At 05:29 AM 3/1/2005 GMT, Jason Coombs wrote:
>Regarding PivX Solutions:
>
>I would like to make contact with anyone who has been harmed by PivX Solutions.
>
>If you have been harmed by PivX Solutions, please contact me as soon as possible.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jason Coombs
>jasonc@...ence.org
>_______________________________________________
>Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
>Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
>

but looking back a bit we see (check out the "from"):

> To: "Hugo van der Kooij" <hvdkooij@...derkooij.org>
> To: Full-disclosure@...sys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Advisory: Design flaw in human communication
> FROM: "Jason Coombs PivX Solutions" <jasonc@...ence.org>
> Sender: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:10:20 +0000 GMT
>
> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> >I would like to point out a design
> >flaw in human communication.
>
> What you describe is an implementation bug, not a design flaw.
>
> FD'ers in particular also appear to have a Reply To All defect whereby every thought that enters one's head while reading FD is compulsively sent to the entire list rather than to the individuals who may find the thoughts interesting and relevant, despite those thoughts being off-topic.
>
> OT posts would be valuable to the tone and context of any list provided that we could patch every mail client to remove the Reply To All feature.
>
> Shall we leave FD unmoderated with respect to any post that does not have 'Re:' as the first three letters of its Subject line, but moderate all replies?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html