On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:46:21PM -0400, woods@weird.com 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 darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui