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Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)



Steve Lamb wrote:

Matt Johnson wrote:
Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from only certain nationalities on this list? You've lost me here, lads. Perhaps you could exlain this clearly.

   Just as I wrote.  It is ironic that someone from Brazil, which is
notorious for it's black-hacker community and open spam relays which are
never, EVER shut down to complain about people drifting hither and yon on a
mailing list on which they have participated in good standing for the better
part of a decade.

   A lot of the web site defacements in the past years have been from Brazil
for dubious political reasons.  In fact the one and only time I have ever seen
a Linux virus originated from Brazil.  Remember the problem with the C-R
response spamming the list users, petmarket or something like that?  A
Brazillian ISP that would not even respond to complaints about the crap they
were spewing.

   If Brazillians want to discuss the merits of Debian, fine.  But lashing
out at people for being Off-Topic is just laughable given the cesspool their
national network has become.
I made my one post on the gas thread earlier, and have stayed out of it since then, but now...

MAYBE Brazil is a source of large amounts of open relays and C-R garbage. MAYBE they are the source of the only linux virus that YOU are aware of. MAYBE. But whether they have more of this than other countries, I don't know. I don't presume to make statements like that. But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington (D.C., not state) say? Are YOU responsible for the SPAM that goes out over U.S. networks? If so, then we now know who to blame. If not, then don't make comments like that about other countries and their citizens!

--
Marc Shapiro

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!

- Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail



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