Alternatively, I pulled fire alarms at Microsoft and it is very possible people at Spamhaus also spent reacting to your email because of the erroneous information posted.
So while John may have been slightly impolitic,and fairly rude, he isn't wrong, and it isn't about ego (in this case). I cannot comment as to his current state of crust, will advise. On Aug 16, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Nigel Smith <gb10hkzo-...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > In the future, if you're not prepared to show the actual problem with their > > actual data, please don't waste our time. > > You know that's the sort of thing I hate about the Open Source community, the > big ego trips by the crusty old dudes who've been around forever and enjoy > giving the relative newbies a hard time. > > I lost count of how many times I apologised to the list for not making it > clear in my original post. Everyone else seemed to accept that apology, but > obviously you're one of those hard-core mailing list guys who would rather > see me sent to the gallows for what was a pretty minor error in the grand > scheme of things.
