I do not usually respond unless a need arises, or prompted, but today I will. This type of response is poor professional etiquette and reflects a lack of common courtesy. Any type of comment such as this should be done directly to the person one-on-one or, based on the excuse given below, should not be said at all unless you have the right and authority to so. Poor professional skills are no excuse for embarrassing or under-cutting another. Now, that being said, I can only respond in kind due to the masking of identity. Please, please, please, let us make this a good list that strives to cut the edge not cut the participants. Chris Shepherd -----Original Message----- From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@private] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 1:06 PM To: crime@private Subject: RE: Scam At 11:40 AM 11/6/01 -0800, Heidi wrote: >John, excuse me for putting the question out on the CRIME list. Some people >did not respond the way you did and were very helpful. Some of us out here >are learning and do not have the experience you do. I am sorry for >"clogging" the CRIME list. I had also already acknowledged that I got the >message it was a hoax and thanked everyone for their responses and hoped >that would stop any further responses. Heidi I can't speak for John or anyone else but, in all honesty Heidi, you ask questions that are often marginal and deal with very elementary issues and reflect both ignorance, which is no- fault, but also a failure to do any basic research at all, which I have a problem with. For example a Google search on "Nigerian fraud" yields the Secret Service on the first page of hits: http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/alert419.htm The USSS has a database for these frauds and you can either fax them to (202) 406-5031 or e- mail them to 419.fcd@private On Denial of Service attacks, the first page of Google hits yields Dave Dietrich's page up at U.Washington with a huge amount of information including ingress and egress filtering. So I would encourage you to try some basic research before you show your ignorance in the future and I would encourage the group to respond to any elementary questions with URL's instead of a quick summary paragraph and apply the truism, "if you teach a (wo)man to fish." IRT anonymous? Heidi, I believe we've met and I don't feel comfortable criticizing you without fear that it will come back to haunt me.
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