Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Wed Sep 1 23:24:22 2004

call him up and discuss it ... let him yell for a while and then still
offer an olive branch... this sometimes works...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Carder" <wacarder_at_usit.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: RE: Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?


>I too have dealt with Ed and found him to be extremely nice
> and easy to deal with. His office is near where I live and
> work and I've been by there to do some old DEC equipment dealing
> with him. I have been very satisfied with our transactions and
> he went out of his way to give me a few extra items each time I
> visited him. Perhaps there is some misunderstanding with the
> email situation.
>
> I do understand the spam issues, as I ran my own mail server
> for several years, but ultimately decided to let the ISP do
> it because it became a maintenance issue and I was too busy.
>
> As for Ed's systems that he is selling online, there seems to be
> a market for what he is building and testing, and he has to earn
> a living, so more power to him if he can get what he's asking
> for those DEC systems. It has to do with the rules of supply
> and demand. I have been known to pay a higher price for an
> old system if it is built and pre-tested by another person who
> is more experienced than I am. Alternatively, if I'm going to
> attempt to test or assemble an old system myself, I will pay
> less for the componentsor system. In the first example, I am
> willing to pay a premium for the other person's time and expertise.
>
> Ashley
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Lyle Bickley
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:35 PM
>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> Subject: Re: Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?
>>
>>
>> I've done business with Ed on a number of occasions and found him
>> to be easy
>> to deal with, honest and resonable. I've never had a situation
>> with Ed where
>> I couldn't reach him or vice-versa.
>>
>> I'm a big fan of SpamAssassin - which both protects my firm from
>> SPAM as well
>> as giving me a great deal of flexibility regarding SPAM control.
>> I've not
>> found it wise to blacklist an entire domain - I prefer much finer
>> controls.
>>
>> BTW, with tweaking, I get less than 0.5% of SPAM per day - with no false
>> positives.
>>
>> Lyle
>>
>> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 19:11, Bruce Lane wrote:
>> > Fellow computer tinkerers,
>> >
>> > I had a recent E-mail exchange with a fellow named Ed
>> Kelleher, apparently
>> > the president of a company called 'Macro-Inc.com.' They appear to sell
>> > overpriced (to my eyes, anyway) DEC systems and parts.
>> >
>> > What had happened was that I had found, in my mail server
>> logs, entries
>> > which showed that Mr. Kelleher had tried to send me something,
>> only to have
>> > it bounced repeatedly due to the fact that I'm currently
>> blocking traffic
>> > from the biz.rr.com domain (this last due to RR.Com's utter lack of
>> > response to ongoing spam, port probes, and other abuse coming from
>> > their
>> > network).
>> >
>> > I sent him a polite note advising him of what I'd found,
>> and asking him to
>> > please re-send the message to my backup address, which is not
>> spam-filtered
>> > in any way that I know of.
>> >
>> > It worked -- sort of. I got back a very terse -- I would
>> actually call it
>> > rude -- reply to the effect that he'd tried to send whatever he
>> was sending
>> > five times, with and without attachments, and had finally given
>> up. In his
>> > words "I don't care to send it again. Stupid policy of yours."
>> >
>> > This tells me right away that he has absolutely no concept
>> of what I, as a
>> > self-hosted SysAdmin, go through each and every DAY, trying to
>> protect my
>> > network effectively against outside abuse.
>> >
>> > That point aside, I sent back another polite request,
>> saying that I'm
>> > sorry he felt that way, and asking that he please not blame me for
>> > doing
>> > what I felt necessary to protect my tiny corner of the Internet. I also
>> > asked him if he would consider at least telling me what it was he was
>> > trying to send.
>> >
>> > No response yet, of course. I'm not sure I'll ever see one.
>> Based on what
>> > I saw of his company's web site, though, I suspect that what he
>> had to send
>> > may have been of minimal value in any case (possibly even spam).
>> >
>> > Has anyone on the list had any contact with this person or
>> his company?
>> >
>> > The vast majority of people that I've asked to re-send
>> their original
>> > message have no problem with it, and are fully understanding of
>> why their
>> > initial attempts might have been blocked. What's gotten into this
>> > fellow
>> > that he can't seem to understand the view from my side, especially
>> > considering that he sells (and presumably works with) computer goodies?
>> >
>> > Insights and opinions welcomed. Thanks much.
>> >
>> >
>> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>> > Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
>> > Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
>> > kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
>> > "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped
>> > with
>> > surreal ports?"
>>
>> --
>> Lyle Bickley
>> Bickley Consulting West Inc.
>> http://bickleywest.com
>> "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
>>
>>
>
>
>
Received on Wed Sep 01 2004 - 23:24:22 BST

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