12 Oct
2000
12 Oct
'00
6:17 p.m.
This one is truly in the "For what it's worth" department.
Following the recent flamewar between Mr. Ismail and R.D. Davis, I
forwarded a (supposedly private) note with my concerns about it to the DNS
provider for the domain siconic.com (psyber.com). I did this because many
ISP's have explicit prohibitions in their terms of service against exactly
the kind of crap that was going down.
Apparently, the tech person for psyber and Mr. Ismail are on pretty good
terms. I got the attached blurb this evening.
If anyone on the list had any doubts as to what appears to be Mr. Ismail's
true nature, I suspect they will now be removed.
Yes, I've filter-filed the entire 'siconic.com' domain out of my system.
I'm completely fed up with the temper tantrums of its owner.
Attachment follows. In the interests of keeping the list on-topic, there
will be no further posts from me on this subject.
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Delivered-To: kyrrin(a)mail-sttl.uswest.net
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:49:04 -0700
From: "Sellam Ismail" <dastar(a)siconic.com>
To: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
Subject: Re: Terms of Service query
Reply-to: dastar(a)siconic.com
Priority: normal
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Bruce,
You, too, are an ass.
Mind your own business and leave my ex-ISP folks alone. They have
better things to worry about other than your inane and childish whining.
On 11 Oct 2000, at 22:53, Bruce Lane wrote:
Danger
Hi, Ted,
The owner of a domain you host (siconic.com/Sellam Ismail) has, in the
past 24 or so hours, been getting very abusive in both language and tone to
one of the users of a mailing list I'm a member of. The only thing the
other user did was to venture an opinion which Mr. Ismail apparently (and
violently) disagreed with.
The other listmember, one R.D. Davis, has been utterly polite, and calm of
tone, despite suggestions by Mr. Ismail to, among other things "shut the
fuck up." I saw absolutely no reason why Mr. Davis's opinion should warrant
such a violent temper tantrum on Mr. Ismail's part.
Now, being an experienced SysAdmin and domain owner myself, I would
ordninarily ignore this little bit of childish ranting and move on.
However, Mr. Ismail has not been particularly polite to me on other
occasions, so I'm beginning to wonder if this is a pattern with him:
Specifically, insulting the crap out of anyone that disagrees with him.
My question: Many ISPs have, in their Terms of Service, prohibitions
against violent flaming. Is psyber.com one of them? If so, would you like
me to send you copies of the mailing list postings in question? Perhaps so
you can have some basis to remind Mr. Ismail that he's not the only one on
the Internet? ;-)
If not, just say so and I'll let it go. Thanks in advance.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).