Re: namedroppers mismanagement: it never ends

[john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>]

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i nominate bush, should he choose to accept, moderator of ietf@ietf.org.

Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:01:37AM -0000, D. J. Bernstein:
> It has been a week since my latest attempt to get Bush to stop screwing
> around with my messages. As per his new instructions, I sent a message
> to namedroppers-owner@ops.ietf.org telling him to put djb@cr.yp.to on
> the list of addresses from which submissions are automatically accepted.
> 
> Bush is continuing to delay and modify my messages. Furthermore, he has
> done nothing to correct the other problems I identified:
> 
>    * He is continuing to manually publish my subscription address, which
>      used to be private. Presumably, if I switch to another subscription
>      address that he knows about, he'll publish that address too.
> 
>    * He is still failing to send ``This message is not being delivered''
>      bounce notices back to his victims. Non-subscribers never realize
>      that their namedroppers contributions have been destroyed.
> 
>    * He is continuing to delay messages from other people---in the last
>      few days, a message from Bill Manning, a message from Randy Hall, a
>      message from Ahau K'in, and some unknown number of messages that
>      we'll never know about because they were silently discarded.
> 
> Meanwhile, it has been nearly two days since any namedroppers messages
> have been delivered to my subscription address, while other subscribers
> have received quite a few messages. Forged unsubscription requests with
> no confirmation? ``Accidental'' problems in Bush's MTA? Stay tuned.
> 
> ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
> Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago



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