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Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken



On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:46:48AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
>   Earlier, you've stated that your time is precious.  Well, so is mine.
>  How dare you assume that the time I spent reviewing *your* callenge mail
>  and deciding it was junk is less precious than the time you (could have)
>  spent reviewing the mail that spurred the challenge in the first place?
> 
>   I admit my first email was written in hot blood, but if TMDA actually
>  endorses this selfish behaviour, I still feel it is something that do
>  not belong in Debian.  On the other hand, if the junk mail in my
>  inbox was a result of a misconfiguration on your part, then I'm
>  sorry for yelling so loud.  Errare humanum est.

I've already stated that I've modified my incoming mail filters so that 
these viruses will no longer hit TMDA.  I feel bad that others were affected
due to my misconfiguration, but it was user error (or laziness in this case)
that caused this, not a fundamental problem with the software.

When the next address-spoofing virus hits, if I need to update my filters
again, I'll make a better effort to do it ASAP instead of letting it go for 
several days.

--Adam

-- 
Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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