Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:48:24AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> >
> > > More evidence that the person running ORBS is incompetent.
>
> He's not. I've spoken to him on several occasions and he is quite clueful.
I don't believe Alan Brown incompetent, either. That little missive
about qmail on his web site is plain ignorance, however. What I do
know about him is that he's very aggressive about whatever he
perceives as network abuse. He's very conscious of bandwidth usage;
as operator of an ISP in New Zealand he has had to think much harder
than most of the rest of us about what's using his bandwidth. It's
somewhat ironic that his role on the net these days causes his
bandwidth-starved network to be attacked pretty regularly ;) I don't
know for sure but I wonder if his net connection has been upgraded
recently.
He detests spam and spammers. Spammers of any kind. As an IRC
operator on Undernet -- his network hosts an Undernet server -- he is
very aggressive against any network abusers, espcecially spammers.
He's been known to ban entire domains much more often than any other
oper (one in particular I remember, all of uu.net was banned.
Big-time collateral damage :-). I did a couple year stint as an oper
there (glad I'm done with IRC), so this is all first-hand experience.
He's often quite ruthless!
Anyway, sorry for the off-topic nature. This is just FYI based on
my experience with the man currently behind ORBS. I generally respect
him, but he often does not engender good feelings torward him from
others.
Aaron
