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Re: stupid spoof (was - I decided to ...)



--- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:51 am, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> > I'm starting to become paranoid (usually yahoo emails have that signature
> > at the bottom...), so who is making this (bad) joke ? ;)
> 
> Salaam, I feel guilty now for sending these messages. I have never thought 
> that someone will take it seriously like this. I thought it will be known 
> from the beginning since I intentionally didn't include - Nadim famous 
> signature in the mails. Again, I am really sorry.

We're not impressed (least of whom I).  You could have helped by telling
us ahead of time that you will be doing this as a test and we would have
directed your spoofed mails to a different test address.  Wasting people's
time is something that NO one should do due to its precious nature.

Shame on you.

> Now, since I have told the truth, I expect you to forgive me  for this and 
> promise not to repeat it again. I would also be happy to help in configuring 
> your ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) mail server properly. (Please send me 
> your /etc/postfix/main.cf file)

We'll do our own configuration - all that was needed was a heads-up.  I
try to not hold grudges (your apology is accepted), but my harsh remarks
(if any) are due to the wasted bandwidth and time of the members of this
list.  You got at least 5-6 people looking into this needlessly and that
is what really bothers me.  We continue to preach "focus" and "results",
this little prank helped neither and if anything distracted a number of already
busy people.

BTW: if you have something to tell me with regards me needing to leave and/or
     step down - feel free to bring it up.  As noted many times, I do not
     like personal email regarding Arabeyes topics and feel VERY comfortable
     talking in public about any topic (that's the Arabeyes way after all).

> BTW: the original M$ spam message is not from me. I just want to test your 
> configuration and hence send those last messages in behalf of Nadim.

Noted.  As stated earlier, instead of doing something as dramatic as what
you've done you should have simply said, "I can help you guys fix this and
I'm willing to help out by sending test messages for you guys to catch".
If you are still interested in helping, we could still use your spoofs
(get on the 'admin' list to talk about this further).

Salam.

 - Nadim



	
		
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