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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit?]
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:40:38 -0400 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[email protected]> wrote: I agree, which is why this fluke in not deleting the last line with ctrk+k as PINE appends signature lines at the top of the post by default--was awkward. Good thing I don't much get deterred by awkward. Still, I bet this is going to be a huge thread yet again. No one appends any URL at the footer--not even me! ;) But folks with no content to contribute would naturally jump at it like they would at even just a typo. I suppose it is only natural when you become a celebrity of any sort--you draw all sorts of attention. At first my thick skin helped, nowadays I just find it amusing. Folks flooded mailing lists spoofing my name (creating ASCII art of Beavis or a swastika) using the subject lines. They flooded yet again, with furry porn pictures attached. They launched fan blogs, created an Encyclopedia Dramatica entry... I've had a comic strip made about me, a song written about me, a fake craigslist entry... all of course, serving as a boost to my ego--knowing "now I must have made it!" ;-) There was a blackhat presentation which in part was about how someone faked a social network account being me, and how he almost got an informationweek interview as me out of it--I was on to him. Most recently, someone created a comic-strip in ASCII about me (very funny, but R rated, so don't go if you find that type of thing offensive). It's from the "now I know I've made it!" department: http://fr.pastebin.ca/raw/1094119 To wrap this up, I don't often (at all) use signature lines, but I do have them and out of habit delete them with almost every new posting from the footer. I had two VERY self-depricating (and very funny) quotes, before, which also were not often used, anyone remember? 1. "beepbeep it, i leave work, stop reading sec lists and im still hearing gadi" - HD Moore to Gadi Evron on IM, on Gadi's interview on npr, March 2007. 2. *FART* -- Avi Freedman to Gadi Evron in a Chinese restaurant, Boston 2007. To even things out, my new barely ever used footer signature, is: -----
"You don't need your firewalls! Gadi is Israel's firewall."
-- Itzik (Isaac) Cohen, "Computers czar", Senior Deputy to the Accountant General,
Israel's Ministry of Finance, at the government's CIO conference, 2005.(after two very funny self-deprication quotes, time to even things up!) My profile and resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gadievron ------ So, I missed one line and it stuck at the footer and no one noticed it except the trolls. Now that the awkward moment is over and I made the unnecessary yet required explanation... can we move on? I really should use the man page and see how I move the signature from the footer in PINE. Thanks for the free advertisement of my resume, trolls! Appreciated. Gadi. content; having the URL at the top is an assertion by the poster that he thinks his resume is more important than what he says. (Yes, I know some of you are about to hit reply to say "maybe it is from Gadi". Don't bother -- what he says is often quite valuable.)
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