July 11, 2003
Fun with l33t h4x0rz: part deux

The ever clever, personable and bright hero of my previous entry decided to complain to my web-hosting provider.. Apparently my entry is abuse!


I have a feeling this lovely young fellow might keep providing me with amusement for a while..

From: admin@**nyc.com
To: support list at peakwebhosting
Subject: Abuse
Date: 11 Jul 2003 06:06:57 -0700

I'm writing regarding following article on http://unix-girl.com domain name:
http://www.unix-girl.com/blog/archives/001001.html#001001”.
The e-mails were edited and now our website had to be locked because of numerous port scans and ddos attacks.
This is direct flaming of ** Network NYC, not only it makes our company look bad it also forwards attacks to our main site affecting customers and staff members.

Thank you.

Reply:

From: Tech Support at peakwebhosting
To: abuse@**nyc.com
Subject: Re: Abuse
Date: 11 Jul 2003 07:35:18 -0700

We've reviewed the content you referenced, but there's not really anything we can do. We don't monitor the content of our customer websites unless it's clearly illegal: hers isn't even close to qualifying on that grounds. It's certainly an embarrasment - as it would be if one of our staff wrote something like that - but this is something you'll need to take up with Ms. Trapszo. Feel free to post in her weblog if you feel you have an alternate view.

But a number of our staff have met Kasia, and she's neither fat, ugly, nor an idiot.

Now, see, that's a good webhosting company.. standing by your errr, customers :) Thanks guys! (peakwebhosting.com).

Posted July 11, 2003 10:38 AM in Funnies
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.unix-girl.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/788
Comments
On July 11, 2003 10:44 AM Steve Friedl added:

What's your webhost's abuse desk said about it? :-)

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On July 11, 2003 10:55 AM Ben Langhinrichs added:

Boy, what a great response. As you say, that is a good webhosting company.

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On July 11, 2003 11:00 AM brandt added:

who ever would have thought a dialogue with a teenager would be so much fun? i tend to think they are worthless and thus, never get those opportunities to engage in witty banter...

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On July 11, 2003 11:08 AM Techie2000 added:

"But a number of our staff have met Kasia, and she's neither fat, ugly, nor an idiot."

Well I'd have to say that I agree. This is getting more interesting by the minute...

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On July 11, 2003 11:19 AM Randy added:

And if he's really running this almighty business how does he find so much time to be such an ankle biter?

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On July 11, 2003 11:32 AM Rob Speicher added:

That right there is funny. Makes me wonder when the hax0ring of peakwebhosting.com will start!

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On July 11, 2003 01:06 PM julie added:

wow! Did you break anything through all of that?

You are unbelievably graceful under fire.

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On July 11, 2003 01:09 PM kasia added:

Not even a nail, Julie :)

Thanks! Comes from years working as a sysadmin (before I changedover to the dark side and became a programmer)...

You need a good sense of humour and a thick skin to survive as an mod/admin of a busy site.. (50K regular users.. bound to have some nutcases).

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On July 11, 2003 01:56 PM Matt added:

"The e-mails were edited and now our website had to be locked because of numerous port scans and ddos attacks."

Well, golly that shouldn't be a problem for him. Why doesn't he just take that time machine he used to send the redhat 8 box back 4 years and use it to distribute the load across multiple server?

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On July 11, 2003 02:34 PM Steve Friedl added:

Actually, this kid is such a genius that he figured out how to upgrade a Linux kernel without rebooting. Sounds pretty 'leet to me.

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On July 11, 2003 04:08 PM Matt added:

Upgrade without rebooting? Hm... that would be easier than a time machine, all you'd need would be a tiny magnet and some amazing fine motor control.

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On July 11, 2003 04:21 PM Techie2000 added:

Upgrade a kernel without rebooting? I surrender...

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On July 11, 2003 06:57 PM apokalyptik added:

it sounds, to me, like his mother had less of an umbilical chord and more of a stderr (/usr/local/bin/have –child 1>&2 2>/dev/null (??))

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On July 11, 2003 06:58 PM rolex added:

Looks a bit chessy from e-mail is admin but to is abuse? Hmm..

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On July 11, 2003 07:00 PM kasia added:

Reply-To was set to abuse.

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On July 11, 2003 08:57 PM joat added:

Anyone want to start a pool on when he decides to drop the issue?

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On July 11, 2003 09:29 PM Mospaw added:

I did the kernel upgrade without rebooting. It required a flux capacitor, 2.74 gigwatts of power, and an old Delorean. I got lightning to hit the clock tower whle driving 88MPH and was in business.

Oddly enough, even though my Linux kernel got upgraded without a reboot, my Windows box next to it wanted to reboot out of jealousy.

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On July 11, 2003 10:41 PM slash added:

I always love it how when people want you to do them a favor they get really defensive when you don't. I mean, you have to be extra nice to get it done. Complaining only ruins any chance of doing a favor.

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On July 12, 2003 07:19 PM jgs (xdmcp) added:

I love it!

"This is direct flaming of Easy Network NYC, not only it makes our company look bad it also forwards attacks to our main site affecting customers and staff members."

Hmm...maybe he should have thought about that before sending his emails...no take-backs!

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