On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:15:59PM +1100, Anthony Farr wrote: > The crazy young guy was probably Brad Dobo, but could also have been > Kirkland Ramsey III. At about the same time there was also a person, whose > name I forget, who was enough of a script kiddy and troublemaker to send > inflammatory spoofed emails posing as legitimate members. . .
Ah, yes. I remember those days well. I remember that incident, in particular, because Mafud stated categorically that it was impossible to spoof emails well enough to avoid detection, and taking this as proof positive of whatever conspiracy theory he was peddling that day. (I don't know how come I saw that post, as he was in my permanent killfile; maybe he'd changed his email address, or maybe somebody quoted his message). Anyway, he shortly made a followup post recanting that particular position. Or, at least, it appeared that he did. But very soon thereafter he was ranting and raving even more than usual, accusing person or persons unknown of identity theft, fraud, libel, and the like, and denying any and all connection to the followup post. But, apparently, the mail was spoofed well enough to make it pretty hard to point the finger at anyone involved. And, in any case, just the injection of that message pretty much deflated Mafud's argument - a fairly convincing proof-by-example. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
