North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

  • From: Scott Francis
  • Date: Sun May 19 04:02:18 2002 
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:46:21PM -0400, [email protected] said:
> [ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 20:15:10 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
> >
> > Apologies; my finger was a bit too quick on the 'g'. As this message came to
> > the list, I will assume it is safe to cc the list on my reply. Sorry about
> > that last.
> 
> Apology accepted, but I strongly recommend you learn to use some more
> reliable mail reader software -- something that doesn't accidentally
> invent reply addresses!  There was no hint that my message to you was in
> any way associated with the NANOG list -- it was delivered directly to
> you and CC'd only to the person you were responding to.  Some outside
> influence had to have associated it with having been a reply to a list
> posting and connected your desire to reply with inclusion of the list
> submission address.  According to your reply's headers you're using
> Mutt-1.3.25i, and according to the Mutt manual 'g' is the group-reply
> command.  I don't find any hint in the description of that command to
> indicate that it will magically associate a given message with a list,
> especially one that was not received from the list.  Even the
> 'list-reply' command should not be able to associate a private reply
> with the list address.  If Mutt really does magically associate private
> replies with list addresses by some mysterious mechanism then it's even
> more broken than I suspected.....

It doesn't. I cc'd the list because I thought the message to be germaine to
the public thread, and no mention was made of the message being private. That
was a misstep on my part, for which I apologize, and that was what I meant by
"a little too quick on the 'g'". I will in the future assume all replies not
cc'd to the list to be private, or else get permission before cc'ing the list
on a reply.

Mea culpa.
-- 
Scott Francis                   [email protected] [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t
Systems/Network Manager          [email protected] [work:]         t o n o s . c o m
GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7              illum oportet crescere me autem minui

Attachment: pgp00037.pgp
Description: PGP signature