Re: Enough's enough...

[James Eaton-Lee <james.mailing () gmail com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 12:24 -0800, Bart Lansing wrote:
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> Y'know...I usually take what you have to say with a grain of
> salt...and maybe a few grains of pain killer...and let it go, but
> enough already.  "If it wasn't for me you wouldn't have an internet
> to sent your packets on right now"??
>
> There have been a few individuals whose contributions to this list
> struck me as being of questionable worth, but you are the first I
> have felt the need to expend the trivial efforts to filter.
> Congratulations and goodbye.

On a sort of side point, I've recently started using the highlight
feature in evolution to apply colours to incoming mail where the
'sender' matches certain criteria - doing this lets me assign a pleasant
(but obvious) colour to people I know and/or whose postings are
interesting (respectively red and redorange), and a vile colour to those
whose postings are silly/downright stupid (respectively forest green and
lime green).

Doing this, I've found, gives me a great indicator as to the qualities
of a thread - a large amount of either colour clearly indicates the
general tone of the thread (and a large amount of both tends to indicate
a 'hot topic'). Suffice it to say that unless looking for a comedy
moment in my afternoon, I tend to ignore those putrid green threads and
head straight for a red.

Particularly for high-volume lists like this one and security basics, I
find that this method pays dividends!

 - James.

> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:02:39 -0800 n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Yet another fuckwit basing their opinion on someone they don't
> > know.
> > If it wasn't for me you wouldn't have an internet to sent your
> > packets
> > on right now. You take people at face value instead of getting to
> > know
> > them first.
> >
> > Read my research paper on Hackers Today and you might learn
> > something.


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