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_at_mail-sttl.uswest.net
>Delivered-To: alias-bluefeathertech.com-kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:49:04 -0700
>From: "Sellam Ismail" <dastar_at_siconic.com>
>To: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com>
>Subject: Re: Terms of Service query
>Reply-to: dastar_at_siconic.com
>Priority: normal
>X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c)
>
>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:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>> Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
>> http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin_at_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
Danger
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>
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>
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin_at_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).
Received on Fri Oct 13 2000 - 01:17:19 BST