Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Good call Tim....everyone please???!! -----Original Message----- From: Tim DiLauro [mailto:timmo@jhu.edu] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:31 AM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: y'all crack me up On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Paul Robinson wrote: Okay! Is everyone on the list going to do one of these, or can we stop already!? -timmo > Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:36:18 +0000 > From: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> > To: Michael Allen Gelman <hostmaster@ontheInter.net> > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: y'all crack me up > > On Feb 28, Michael Allen Gelman <hostmaster@ontheInter.net> wrote: > > > IETF did the same thing old Vernon did -- publicly post a private > > email. You *know* what is wrong with that. Out the other sides of your > > asses you tell people about "Netiquette," don't you. Dweebs! > > It's a mailing list. It's for people who participate or are interested in > the IETF process to discuss things. A MAILING LIST. Can you spell that? I'm > sorry, but when you send mail to a mailing list, it automatically gets sent > to all the members of that list - what part of that did you not understand? > Can I suggest that you read http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html and you go > away and learn some basic stuff about how e-mail works, and how many people > use it. And learn that sending things to mailing lists that you want to be > kept quiet is a really stupid idea. Oh yeah, all these mails are being > archived on the web - you knew that, right? > > > I am really amused. > > So am I. > > > I am really surprised at how juvenile and hateful some of you are. I have > > rec'd messages from about a dozen of you, calling me names and hurling > > false accusations at me. When I reply, my mail is returned. > > You really are having problems sending mail aren't you? You know, there is a > working group around here that might help out... > > > Several of you are "grasping at straws" to try to find some wrong doing > > that I have done. The fact is that I am a small business owner with high > > moral standards of honesty and treatment of my fellow human beings. I > > don't spam and I don't aid spammers. I don't speculate on domain > > names. My services have strict anti-abuse policies that, in one case, > > carries a monetary penalty. I cancel some accounts on the first complaint. > > Your mother must be very proud of you. > > > Go ahead and write to me using acronyms you know I won't understand. Hell, > > one guy doesn't even know the meaning of "ironic." Listening to Alanis > > Morisette music? She doesn't understand that word, either. If you can't > > understand in English, so be it. > > OK, I could have written this mail in English (I'm English myself), or > French, Italian, Spanish, German or Russian. I'll let you pick. > > Incidentally, I believe it is you who does not understand the irony of > sending a mail complaining about anti-spammers activities and how you are a > legitimate business, with an advert at the bottom, to a mailing list read by > nearly everybody involved (and many who aren't like myself) with the > workings of the IETF and individual working groups. > > You're starting to sound stupid. You look stupid. You know, I think there > might be a good chance here that you are stupid. No offense, but you really > are bing quite silly about all this... > > > The fact is that you folks are losers and you're not too bright. I don't > > care how good you are at writing code and doing math -- you're > > losers. Y'all crack me up. > > We also run the world. You see, you've actually stumbled across the *real* > illuminati. Look out of your window. See that guy across the street staring > at your window? He's with us. > > In all seriousness, there are times when I read an RFC and *I* think the > IETF must be stupid, but I can assure you that they aren't. Some of them > even graduated high-school. > > > I have a nice house, lots of money, a hot girlfriend, and I enjoy it all > > immensely. I also have the ability to imagine and create new things. Go > > ahead and hate me -- I can't say I blame you. > > You don't want to even imagine what some of the guys on this list earn in > consulting fees. They just don't boast about it. They're secure in > themselves and don't feel the need to. I'm sorry that isn't the case for > you. > > As for creating and imaginig new things, can I direct you to > http://www.ietf.org/iesg/1rfc_index.txt where you will find the list of 3240 > documents that define how every nook and cranny of the Internet works, > having been developed since April 7 1969 - if you don't find anything > imaginative in that lot, you're not getting the point. The people you are > dismissing made your domain selling business a possibility - without them > you'd be nothing. They don't ask for anything in return, and many of them > hate what you do for a business, but the least you can give them is a small > amount of respect. > > > I'm having sex with a beautiful woman and making money while not hurting > > anyone in any way. > > All that whilst typing this e-mail! Well done! I'd try doing that, but I'm > in a cybercafe right now and might get some funny looks. Incidentally, how > are you making money whilst having sex and writing this mail? Is she paying > you? Wow, you are a lucky man. We're sooooo jealous. > > > Have fun masturbating > > Laughs out to the guy who wrote 'is there any other way' in answer to that. > Again, I'd try having fun masturbating, but being in the cybercafe and all > that... > > > and writing abusive mail to a man > > who would teach you some respect, but as you know, can't reach you right now. > > Ooooh! I'm scared! :-) > > Seriously, you sent mail to a mailing list without doing any research, > you've now realised you screwed up, and although we already knew you were > pretty vengeful (e.g. the initial mail you sent to us), there really is no > need to take it all so personally. Just go away and leave us alone and we'll > all try to avoid you. Especially if we see you on the highway and you're > trying to have sex whilst driving as well. And remember to check who your > mail is going to next time before you sent it. > > -- > Paul Robinson > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim DiLauro Milton S. Eisenhower Library Digital Knowledge Center Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-5263 3400 N. Charles Street timmo@jhu.edu Baltimore, MD 21218 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY