Kudos

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:51:51 PDT 2004


On Friday 29 August 2003 8:50 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> Quoth burns:
> > A couple of days ago, my ISP instituted a blackhole of (read = refused
> > to accept) traffic from this list. This was based upon an arbitrary
> > listing issued by a vigilante group in the Netherlands. Their rationale
> > was that the SxS listserver uses DHCP, and many rogue spam servers also
> > employ DHCP. What utter BS - that's like banning the use of computers
> > because hackers/crackers have been known to use them. Give me a break!
> >
> > The good news is that because of Kurt and Doug's personal efforts and a
> > bit of mail magic, I am able to still participate in the list until my
> > new, less anal, ISP comes on line. A big public thank you, to both these
> > guys.
>
> Aw shucks. Weren't nothing. Doug did the hard work. I just stood around
> and said "It's borken."
>

Oftentimes the most important part. If no one knows its borked, how can it be 
fixed? ;-)

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