From dewar@gnat.com Wed Dec 1 14:25:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.well.com (nobody@smtp.well.com [206.80.6.147]) by mail.well.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11223 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:25:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from nile.gnat.com (NILE.GNAT.COM [205.232.38.5]) by smtp.well.com (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA29278 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by nile.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 338) id 0BCD634D82; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:25:35 -0500 (EST) To: dewar@gnat.com, xanthian@well.com Subject: Re: if you want to send mail to me Message-Id: <19991201192535.0BCD634D82@nile.gnat.com> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:25:35 -0500 (EST) From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) X-UIDL: 32507b3ab57ca1978e54cc42796f7084 Status: RO Content-Length: 4614 (automatic reply) sorry mail is not being accepted at this address from xanthian@well.com (so your mail is returned unopened) -- >From xanthian@well.com Wed Dec 1 11:00:39 1999 Delivered-To: dewar@gnat.com Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:00:30 -0800 (PST) From: Kent Paul Dolan To: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: if you want to send mail to me Robert, I just hit reply to your email, that was the address you had provided. Please don't waste my patience explaining to me why your error, once again, is All My Fault. I dumped the whole header set and the bounce message back for your benefit. It might have penetrated through that caking of ego-droppings that this was intelligent behavior on my part, and not just an email reply gone out of control. Since you are anwsering the "postmaster" account, bad reply addresses in email leaving your site _are_ _your_ problem. Do your homework, dig the bad address out, find out why it is there, fix it. Don't write for help with your assignment pretending not to be a student. A little competence on your part would save a whole lot of explaining why you were right all along later, but that concept is probably outside your clue horizon, along with most of the "how to get along peacefully in groups of more than one" upbringing you apparently missed. Are you really so dense as to think I don't know who runs your company? You've been reading, and complaining about, my postings in comp.lang.ada for around seven years now. No, you probably just couldn't resist the urge to rub it in my face, more typical behavior for you. I was just suggesting ACT as a model for getting F95 embedded in gcc, over in comp.lang.fortran, a newsgroup in which I've been participating since Ada was a twinkle in Jean Ichbiah's eye. You make me regert the suggestion. I've followed Ada almost as long as it's existed, I arguably might have some awareness of the players and what positions they play. You arguably might know that; I make no attempt to be invisible. Meanwhile, don't send me email from bogus addresses; that is spamming, which lets me pass along my delightful boilerplate spammer advice for your self-improvement reading needs. ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** ** ** ** Die, spammer! ** ** ** ** What moron methodology makes you think that everyone who ** ** posts on any topic to any part of Usenet would welcome your ** ** worthless trash landing in their private email boxes, ** ** causing annoyance, inconvenience, wasted time, and added ** ** expense for the recipients? ** ** ** ** The air you are wasting by existing when you could be ** ** feeding some needy and deserving worms could be being ** ** breathed by a real, functional, thinking human being ** ** instead of by a bandwidth wasting, money-grubbing, ** ** self-centered, social-parasite, brain-dead net vandal. ** ** ** ** Please treat yourself to an early and much needed suicide. ** ** Messy, lingering, and intensely painful methods should be ** ** at the top of your list of choices of ways to accomplish ** ** this too long delayed chore. ** ** ** ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** ===== random archival quality quote ===== So the little dinosaur said to the big dinosaur, "Hey look, I can skip rocks, watch!", and skipped a rock along the water. The big dinosaur said "I can do better than that!," found a boulder, and skipped it out to sea with a huge splash. High above, Dinosaur God saw this and said "OH HO... THAT'S NOTHING, WATCH *THIS*" -- gherbert@crl3.crl.com (George Herbert) -- Kent Paul Dolan. Pretense of web presense [poorly hidden] at http://www.well.com/user/xanthian (just dumps you into a directory: glitz minus). [Even more poorly maintained.]