Re: Recent spam

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Chris Dukes wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:26:34PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
>>This is a bit inconsiderate of you, don't you think?  Why don't you just 
>>unsubscribe?  I have a sysadmin with too many tasks to get them done, 
>>and he doesn't need his time wasted with such crap as dealing with spamcop.
>>    
>>
>
>Hans,
><rant>
>What is inconsiderate is continueing to allow ALL spam to pass through
>such that if anyone tries to report it to shut down the spammer,
>the only origination information is namesys.
>
>What is inconsiderate is taking the time to flag some of these spams
>as spam, but not taking the time to forward them off to a bucket for
>approval or disposal (And multiple people can sort through the spam,
>so don't blame your overworked sysadmin.
>
He has been told to do these things.  They are in his queue.  He gets me 
a 4-way Itanium for free to test Reiser4 SMP performance on and I don't 
whine excessively about spam management software not being taken care of 
yet.

></rant>
><suggestion>
>If namesys' admin is unable or unwilling to get the namesys mailing
>lists to cease being anonymous injection points for SPAM, perhaps
>you should contract out the management of the mailing list.
>Considering past incidents (like the mailloop), it may solve problems
>beyond SPAM.
></suggestion>
><morerant>
>It isn't like namesys has a clean reputation with spam anyways.
>A significant number are people are annoyed with the advertising
>that has been added to the reiserfs tools. 
>
Oh this is total crap.  Go learn the difference in definition between a 
credit and an ad.  When SuSE removes the SuSE from the box of software 
that it mostly did not write, and replaces it with a big GNU, then come 
talk to me about modesty.  For SuSE to have the chutzpah to complain 
that we credited those who made ReiserFS possible when it slaps its name 
everywhere across code it wrote only a tiny fraction of is really ballsy. 

We credit those who contribute.  Distros naturally don't like that 
because they prefer to get all the mentions.  

> The spam on the list
>only furthers the perception that namesys approves, endorses, and
>actively engages in unsolicited advertising.
>
Go get rid of that SuSE splash screen and we'll talk some more.  I 
suggest a nice photo of a gnu instead.

></morerant>
>  
>

Despite the (really) trivia above, SuSE is a great company....

-- 
Hans