Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?

[ed sharpe]

Don't let it bring you down!
heck there are people that I email and they do not even reply.
But remember, that is just a calibration of their personality.
The odd thing is if they ever needed help I would still try to help them.

hope all ends well!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com>
To: <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:11 PM
Subject: Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?


> Fellow computer tinkerers,
>
> I had a recent E-mail exchange with a fellow named Ed Kelleher, apparently 
> the president of a company called 'Macro-Inc.com.' They appear to sell 
> overpriced (to my eyes, anyway) DEC systems and parts.
>
> What had happened was that I had found, in my mail server logs, entries 
> which showed that Mr. Kelleher had tried to send me something, only to 
> have it bounced repeatedly due to the fact that I'm currently blocking 
> traffic from the biz.rr.com domain (this last due to RR.Com's utter lack 
> of response to ongoing spam, port probes, and other abuse coming from 
> their network).
>
> I sent him a polite note advising him of what I'd found, and asking him to 
> please re-send the message to my backup address, which is not 
> spam-filtered in any way that I know of.
>
> It worked -- sort of. I got back a very terse -- I would actually call it 
> rude -- reply to the effect that he'd tried to send whatever he was 
> sending five times, with and without attachments, and had finally given 
> up. In his words "I don't care to send it again. Stupid policy of yours."
>
> This tells me right away that he has absolutely no concept of what I, as a 
> self-hosted SysAdmin, go through each and every DAY, trying to protect my 
> network effectively against outside abuse.
>
> That point aside, I sent back another polite request, saying that I'm 
> sorry he felt that way, and asking that he please not blame me for doing 
> what I felt necessary to protect my tiny corner of the Internet. I also 
> asked him if he would consider at least telling me what it was he was 
> trying to send.
>
> No response yet, of course. I'm not sure I'll ever see one. Based on what 
> I saw of his company's web site, though, I suspect that what he had to 
> send may have been of minimal value in any case (possibly even spam).
>
> Has anyone on the list had any contact with this person or his company?
>
> The vast majority of people that I've asked to re-send their original 
> message have no problem with it, and are fully understanding of why their 
> initial attempts might have been blocked. What's gotten into this fellow 
> that he can't seem to understand the view from my side, especially 
> considering that he sells (and presumably works with) computer goodies?
>
> Insights and opinions welcomed. Thanks much.
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
> Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
> kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
> "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with 
> surreal ports?"
>
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