I just received this in response to my phone call...he asked me to forward it (I have removed the html formatting which causes spacing issues) so have fun - here is a solid laugh to start your weekend.
Note the subject line was: "Please tell me what to do..." GV PS: I responded privately to explain that no one has threatened him, but that lots of people were angry. >X-RocketMail: 00000001;R---------------;8540 >X-RocketUID: 0000001796 >X-RocketMIF: 1034364652;14181;2736b2da7347fee3655af17d5cb8f5d5 >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 216.136.173.80; 11 Oct 2002 12:30:52 -0700 >(PDT) >X-RocketRCL: 12983;1;508161022;13237 >X-Track: 1: 100 >From: "Joshua E. Blasetzky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Please tell me what to do... >Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:30:19 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) >Importance: Normal > >Dear Sir, > > It has recently been brought to my attention that the community of which you are >a part in is planning a malicious attack on me and my employer's domain over what I >would consider something that is far beyond my control. I joined the mailing list to >which you are subscribed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in hopes to find some help with an >issue I had several months ago. My questions to the mailing list went unanswered, >leading me to "un-subscribe" myself from the list per the instructions found at >http://perl.apache.org./maillist/modperl.html . As the site directed, I clicked the >"mailto" link and politely asked to be removed from the list... the emails kept >coming. By this time, I had setup a rule to delete all emails originating from the >modperl mailing list as numerous emails, although very informative, were simply too >much for me to sort through anymore, hence I never received the "explicit and even >polite" instructions your colleagues allegedly sent me on removing my name from the >list. I hope you can understand that I'm not juvenile enough to set up an auto >responder as I have apparently been accused. Whatever may be causing this strange >error is, as I previously stated, beyond my control. I spoke directly to the >administrator of our firewall and email server, and he confirmed, as I had already >suspected, that nothing in the configuration of either device would cause my single >email to be regenerated indefinitely and spawned to every member of the mailing list. > If you have any insight on what action(s) need to be taken on my part to remedy this >issue, beyond sending an email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (no >sense in making a bad thing even worse), please let me know. Although I cannot take >responsibility for what has happened, I do apologize to you and all members of your >community for the inconvenience this has caused, and ask that you could relay this >message to the rest of the members. In closing, I applaud you and your colleagues in >providing help to those in need and hope that this incident doesn't lead others to >ignore such requests. > >Thank You, >Joshua E. Blasetzky
