People I Have No Interest In Helping

pudge on 2002-04-18T11:12:17

Delivered-To: pudge@pobox.com Delivered-To: perlmail-pudge@perl.org Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:26:55 -0400 From: "László L. Orosz" X-Accept-Language: en To: pudge@perl.org Subject: Re: [use Perl] use Perl user password for vulpes_aureus

Do not genrate more junks, please! My password is: xxxxxxxx. What is wrong whith that???

pudge@perl.org wrote:

Your new password is xxxxxxxxx. Your old password will still work until this password is used. Go to the URL below to log in:



Make sure you then CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD!

If you have received this message without having requested it, it is because someone attempted to use your username or e-mail address. It was mostly likely an innocent mistake, and they are not getting your password, so you can safely disregard this message.

Thanks.

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And later:

Delivered-To: pudge@pobox.com Delivered-To: perlmail-pudge@perl.org Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:44:20 -0400 From: "László L. Orosz" X-Accept-Language: en To: pudge@perl.org Subject: Re: [use Perl] use Perl user password for vulpes_aureus

No matter what I put in the password field your fricken machine rejekts me. Your system stinks, becouse it never veryfied the password! Other places, it has to be entered twice, and if no mach repeat it. You tell to chanege the password, but how can be change you give no clue!

pudge@perl.org wrote:

Your new password is xxxxxxx. Your old password will still work until this password is used. Go to the URL below to log in:



Make sure you then CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD!

If you have received this message without having requested it, it is because someone attempted to use your username or e-mail address. It was mostly likely an innocent mistake, and they are not getting your password, so you can safely disregard this message.

Thanks.

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I have several things I could tell this person to help him. But I give my free time to this site, and there are so many other people who want things done on it who are polite. I don't need it. And so he won't get it.


and yet....

hfb on 2002-04-18T13:43:40

you took the time to insert it here...and didn't even remove the sender's name to protect the innocent. Cruel and unusually mean. If I did this for every dumb email conversation at CPAN I'd have an even more excrutiatingly dull journal.

Re:and yet....

pudge on 2002-04-18T14:15:08

Whatever.

To protect the "innocent"

Simon on 2002-04-18T15:40:35

Odd. I don't regard people who send me gratuitiously abusive mail as "innocent".

Re:To protect the "innocent"

hfb on 2002-04-18T15:56:30

I've refused requests from the FBI et. al for email pertaining to real crimes not just some ego wanking of some perl people....email shouldn't be treated so lightly and be posted so publicly without consent.

Besides, weren't you the guy who couldn't take a joke and whined on about how unappreciated you are recently? I'll bet there are a few similar emails from you floating around the net just waiting to surface with your name on them. Noone around here is innocent, which is why it's stupid, unentertaining and offensive to certain unwritten rules of courtsey which seem to have all been forgotten.

That was a bit unneccesary

Elian on 2002-04-18T14:20:42

Especially as he may well not be at fault. Netscape 6 and many versions of Mozilla are completely unable to log into use.perl. (And slashdot, and presumably any Slash-based site) Dunno why, and it's damned annoying when you get a version that does it, but there's no hint to the user that the browser is at faut.

(FWIW, I've reported this to you at least once though it's probably a browser problem and not Slash's)

Yeah, he was obviously frustrated and rude as a result, but that's no reason to slam him quite so publically, complete with e-mail address.

Re:That was a bit unneccesary

pudge on 2002-04-18T14:27:17

I don't care what his problem is. He was rude. I posted the example of being rude. I don't care what his email address is. Go away.

Aren't they teaching kids about . . .

Fletch on 2002-04-18T16:22:01

flies, honey, and vinegar anymore?

I just had someone try and ping flood me last night after I told him to ask his CGI question somewhere other than EFnet #perl (for those not familiar, the channel has a longstanding policy that web and CGI questions are verboten since most of them are FAQs or not really perl related). He earned himself a nice letter to his university's abuse account; maybe next time he won't throw a tantrum when someone doesn't give him free support.