good after noon sir

[Brian Beattie]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:52 -0700, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Harry L. Lee wrote:
> > I expected my reply to go only to the author of the original phishing 
> > message. my apologies for offending everyone's gentle sensibilities. 
> > perhaps the censors should spend more time on actual content than being 
> > 4 letter cops. I personally find phishing offensive if not illegal.
> 
> I don't appreciate being called a four letter cop.  What I was 
> responding to was an inappropriate response to a list email which I felt 
> was egregious enough to warrant a request for politeness.
> 
> I especially come to this opinion as the original email was not 
> phishing.  Phishing, as has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, is 
> about tricking someone into revealing personal information.  Whatever 
> else it might be, the original email was not that.  At worst it may have 
> been spam.  At best, it may have been a new subscriber that started an 
> email, and accidentally hit send before they were done.  This latter 
> example is why I felt your comment required response.

You are right, it was not phishing, it  was a 419 scam.  419'ers have
not only been associated with stealing thousands, but they have actually
been quilty of murder, 419'ers are worse than phishers.

> >     Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >      > Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> >      >
> >      >> Harry L. Lee wrote:
> >      >>
> >      >>> <censored for rude content>
> >      >>>
> >      >> #1, Please follow the code of conduct:
> >      >> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
> >      >>
> >      >> #2, what about the original email prompted this comment????
> >      >>
> >      >
> >      > Probably the fact that it had nothing except a name and bad
> >     punctuation.
> >      >  I suspect it is spam, but Harry was still quite rude.
> 
> It may have been spam, but most spam actually makes more sense than the 
> original email.  I suspect an accidental sending of a just started email 
> above most of the other choices.  I have had several late night emails 
> that have looked similar after a line or two...  I hate to think what it 
> would look like if I accidentally sent one of those.
> 
> -Matt Kuiken
> 
> 
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