On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:39 -0700, jdow wrote:
> > You replied to a previous thread by creating a new thread. And that's
> > pissing people off.
>
> Some may figure a person too dumb to use "reply" rather than creating
> a new email is too hopeless to try to work with. Is he worth the energy
> to try to deal with him?
Basically, in some way I'd agree, especially since one generally should
be able to expect quite some knowledge about mail in this group --
though I usually prefer to educate people, rather than plain ignore and
shrug off. Been there, done that, many times.
And BTW, this one is a rather special artifact, caused by the previous
incident of the exact opposite [1], it's reactions triggered, and an
attempt to play nice.
Anyway, even though I started it -- I for one would welcome to finally
drop this part of the off-topic discussion.
Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity. Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be adequately
explained by an accident, or an attempt to correct previous behavior. ;)
> (The best protection against spear phishing is a suspicious mind
> operated by well trained employees. [...]
Aye.
[1] Which, though, he explained how it happened to end up as a reply in
disguise, by accident. While he still should have created a new
message and copy the parts he intended to keep, this still leaves
room for the interpretation of not doing it out of ignorance.
--
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
