abuse from a user of this list

Mon Oct 13 16:15:02 UTC 2003

"Matthew S. Hallacy" wrote:
> 
> This is not a list issue, nor does anyone on the list care.
> 
Put me down as caring.  Moreover, as a long-time participant in this 
forum, I'm particularly concerned about even anecdotal evidence that 
one of our posters is mounting an attack on another. 

> Please take your blathering back to IRC.
> 
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=denigrate
> 
It saddens me that ostensible college students have grammar problems, 
but that stoops to an "ad hominem" attack.  Please cease.

Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>...
> Since you are "Director of Security", I will offer you some advice:
> 
> 1) Cease your incessant shrieking as it is neither warranted nor desired on this list.
> 2) It is not possible to "denigrate" to anything.
> 3) Grow up.
> 
Based on the web pages at http://2mbit.com/ and http://www.sosdg.org/, 
I see an effort to improve the community not found at either 
http://www.poptix.net nor http://techmonkeys.org/.

Mayhap all persons involved are young.  Never-the-less, I'd like to 
encourage security awareness.  I remember a decade ago, I was an 
immortal on a local MUD, and helped a promising fellow there who 
eventually went to work for rediris.es.

> Andrew D Kirch wrote:
> 
> Last night in conjunction with the attacks on my DSL line and the 
> Summit Open Source Development Group, I received a threatening phone 
> call on my home business line at 1:44 in the morning (GMT-5 CST 
> Indiana-East).  My roommate answered the call, and the dialog was 
> simply "how's your DSL B----!", then the caller hung up.
> This evening my roommate informed me of the call, and told me that 
> the caller had not blocked caller ID, the number in question being 
> 320-282-5940.  I tracked this number to a T Mobile cellphone in 
> St Cloud, MN.  Thinking this might be the kiddie responsible for the 
> attack I made a *67 call back.
> I was greeted with the voice mail of Matthew Hallacy (AKA poptix) who 
> has used this forum to take cheap shots at myself and my staff 
> repeatedly.  Now he has denigrated to simple threats and harassment 
> off list that didn't even get to me but to my roommate who is entirely 
> uninvolved in this.
> I must note that this incident greatly saddened me, as I would have 
> thought that all on this list have suffered Denial of Service attacks, 
> and understand the seriousness and severity of these attacks, 
> obviously one of us doesn't get it.
> please contact me if you have questions regarding this incident.
> 
I'd say you need to contact your FBI office.

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