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Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit?]
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:08:41 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:40:38 -0400 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net> wrote:[SNIP] Just so that I am clear on your issue here: You believe it is "okay" for you to put your linkedin URL in your .sig, but Gadi must not be allowed to put it at the top of a post?Yes, I think that's exactly right. It's a statement of what the sender perceives to be important about the email. I read email for the
I agree, which is why this fluke in not deleting the last line with ctrk+k as PINE appends signature lines at the top of the post by default--was awkward. Good thing I don't much get deterred by awkward.
Still, I bet this is going to be a huge thread yet again. No one appends any URL at the footer--not even me! ;) But folks with no content to contribute would naturally jump at it like they would at even just a typo.
I suppose it is only natural when you become a celebrity of any sort--you draw all sorts of attention. At first my thick skin helped, nowadays I just find it amusing.
Folks flooded mailing lists spoofing my name (creating ASCII art of Beavis or a swastika) using the subject lines. They flooded yet again, with furry porn pictures attached. They launched fan blogs, created an Encyclopedia Dramatica entry...
I've had a comic strip made about me, a song written about me, a fake craigslist entry... all of course, serving as a boost to my ego--knowing "now I must have made it!" ;-)
There was a blackhat presentation which in part was about how someone faked a social network account being me, and how he almost got an informationweek interview as me out of it--I was on to him.
Most recently, someone created a comic-strip in ASCII about me (very funny, but R rated, so don't go if you find that type of thing offensive).
It's from the "now I know I've made it!" department: http://fr.pastebin.ca/raw/1094119To wrap this up, I don't often (at all) use signature lines, but I do have them and out of habit delete them with almost every new posting from the footer.
I had two VERY self-depricating (and very funny) quotes, before, which also were not often used, anyone remember?
1."beepbeep it, i leave work, stop reading sec lists and im still hearing gadi" - HD Moore to Gadi Evron on IM, on Gadi's interview on npr, March 2007.
2. *FART*
-- Avi Freedman to Gadi Evron in a Chinese restaurant, Boston 2007. To even things out, my new barely ever used footer signature, is: ----- "You don't need your firewalls! Gadi is Israel's firewall." -- Itzik (Isaac) Cohen, "Computers czar", Senior Deputy to the Accountant General, Israel's Ministry of Finance, at the government's CIO conference, 2005. (after two very funny self-deprication quotes, time to even things up!) My profile and resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gadievron ------So, I missed one line and it stuck at the footer and no one noticed it except the trolls. Now that the awkward moment is over and I made the unnecessary yet required explanation... can we move on?
I really should use the man page and see how I move the signature from the footer in PINE.
Thanks for the free advertisement of my resume, trolls! Appreciated. Gadi.
content; having the URL at the top is an assertion by the poster that he thinks his resume is more important than what he says. (Yes, I know some of you are about to hit reply to say "maybe it is from Gadi". Don't bother -- what he says is often quite valuable.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Current thread:
- 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Dan Mahoney, System Admin (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Gadi Evron (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Paul Wall (Sep 02)
- self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 02)
- Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit?] Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 02)
- Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit?] Gadi Evron (Sep 02)
- Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or Joe Greco (Sep 03)
- Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 03)
- Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or Lamar Owen (Sep 03)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Paul Wall (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Gadi Evron (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? micky coughes (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Gadi Evron (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Todd Underwood (Sep 02)
- Re: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or potential exploit? Christopher Morrow (Sep 02)