Re: several messages

I'm sorry for top posting, this is actually intended.

Could you please take this conversation off-list ?

Thank you.

Hugo Monteiro.

Dean Anderson wrote:
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> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Emilio Perea wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:18:14PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
>>     
>>> Most people probably know this, but John Levine and Paul Vixie et al
>>> were unmasked as spammers:
>>> http://www.iad.org/whitehat/whitehat-story.html 
>>>       
>> Unfortunate typo there: iad.org is owned by the Saudi embassy!
>>     
>
> That is iadl.org.  My apologies.
>
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Laurent Bercot wrote:
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>> [ Dean Anderson writes: ]
>>     
>>> But in my defense, on 4 major controversies on law and the internet that
>>> I either participated in or voiced opinions on, my views and positions
>>> were ultimately vindicated.
>>>       
>>  Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why, why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why
>> keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more
>> than your survival? Can you tell me what it is, do you even know? 
>>  Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace - could it be for love?
>>     
>
> Why do I refute the dishonest? Because they are dishonest; that's 
> reason enough.
>
>   
>>  I wish to remind you, Mr. Anderson, that this list, according to its
>> creator, is supposed to be about "Free BIND replacement under UNIX,
>> such as djbdns". It's supposed to be technical. It's supposed to host
>> people who are interested in how DNS works and how to make it better.
>> Or people who have technical questions and are looking for help.
>>
>>  Controversies on law and the Internet, inquiries about people,
>> legalese talk, ideas of suing people and looking for responsibilities
>> and culprits (instead of helping people and looking for solutions),
>> political issues of any kind, and vain talk, in which I don't deny you
>> excel, are all off-topic.
>>     
>
> The insubstantial personal attacks are off-topice and add nothing. 
>
> The messages by Raftery and Weldon attacking me contained no substance; 
> they were off-topic.
>
> The refutation of their dishonest personal attacks is necessary.
>
> Honest, substantial statements about credibility are not off-topic.  My
> messages refering to pages on the credibility of certain persons are
> substantive and relevant to the members of this list; they are not
> off-topic.
>
>   
>>  The time I devote to this mailing-list isn't extensible, and every
>> bit of off-topic noise is an annoyance to me, and doubtless to many
>> other readers. Please keep the traffic on-topic. If you don't think
>> you can do that, please refrain from posting. If you don't think you
>> can do that either, please revoke your ISP subscription.
>>     
>
> I suggest you point your opinion at the people making the unfounded
> attacks. Of course, I understand the futility of such criticism of such
> dishonest people---All that can be done is refute their lies.  But you
> do neither, so your message is just more noise, isn't it?
>
> 		--Dean
>
>   


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