Thanks, John, that means a lot to me. I welcome peer review, why else would I write?
I hope that my own response did not get out of line and appoligize if I offended you. On 2004.01.29 20:12 John Hebert wrote: > --- will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tin foil hats, get out more? Did I fall into some > > kind of Slashdot troll hole? We don't need to be > > like this to each other. > > You are right, I was wrong. > > Last night I played waay too much Half-Life into the > wee hours burning off steam from fighting MyDoom on a > MS-Exchange box all day; my testosterone level was > high, and wife just left on an extended business trip. > > I meant to be civil and reasonable in my reply to your > email explaining your hypothesis that Microsoft is > behind the MyDoom worm based on your observation that > Microsoft could be shown statistically to be keeping a > list of email addresses of Linux zealots as potential > targets but using its own Microsoft Outlook as a virus > delivery vector. > > But somewhere along the way I lost it, and stepped > over the line. I am sorry and I should not have done > that. If I got personal, I didn't mean to do so. My > only intent was to try to get you to consider what you > were saying from a critical and logical perspective. > > I do want to say that part of the scientific process > does involve peer review. I think of everyone on the > mailing list as peers and I consider this to be an > open forum for discussion. Therefore, we must take > responsibility for what we say here. I just did. > > I'm sorry and I apologize. > > > ===== > John Hebert > 'cat /dev/random | perl' > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
