Dec. 31, 2002
6:38 p.m.
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
If you saw that and chose to ignore my advice, I would've appreciated a reply at least.
I did not. I would have heeded that advice.
On reflection, more explanation seems called for...
I've been flooded in a particularly repellent way recently. Somebody is using my From address for spam mail about quack remedies for prostate trouble, somebody so illiterate that the Subject line read "urnination flow".
We've been seeing misspellings as deliberate ways to get around word-list filters. It's probably not illiteracy as much as wickedness.