One would hope a Cisco employee, or better yet, their employer would have enough clue to have whacked this mole 24 hours after it appeared let alone a week later. Guess not. Then perhaps guilty as charged? Just my 2¢ worth. -Al Humble, unofficial, unresearched, off-the-cuff, personal capacity, etc. --- -----Original Message----- From: measl@mfn.org [mailto:measl@mfn.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:25 PM To: ... Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: Hi On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, ... wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Andy Li wrote:
How are you ?
'tis a sad, sad day when a cisco employee tries to infect the nanog ml membership with a windoze virus.
"Tries to infect" implies deliberate behaviour - obviously not the case here. I think you owe him an apology.
-Dan
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Rowland, Alan D wrote:
One would hope a Cisco employee, or better yet, their employer would have enough clue to have whacked this mole 24 hours after it appeared let alone a week later. Guess not. Then perhaps guilty as charged?
Guilty for clue-impairment is a lot different than guilty of intent to spread. As for clue-impairment, I think everyone here agrees that Cisco should have this well filtered. If this was your intended statement, then yes, agreed. It was the implication of malice that I think was inappropriate, especially in a public forum. We [hopefully] return to our regularly scheduled... Hmmm..... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
Guilty for clue-impairment is a lot different than guilty of intent to spread. As for clue-impairment, I think everyone here agrees that Cisco should have this well filtered. If this was your intended statement, then yes, agreed. It was the implication of malice that I think was inappropriate, especially in a public forum.
Well hang on a bit there.... shouldn't merit have this filtered as well? Agreed the person who opened the said SCR should have had a clue, but what about merit protecting its subscribers? At very least one would think they would be geared up to thwart the spread of such viruses. X-Virus-Scanned: by MailScan
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