jcuervo's Journal: Schmucks run the internet.

I forwarded a 419 scam (impulsively and incorrectly[0], whoops) to a postmaster. The reply came back, sic:

Stay the fuck off my site you sad pointless script kiddie an get a fucking life.

Ooooookay.

Well, shit, at least he [sorta] knows what a script kiddie is.

After a bit of thought, I replied:

His signature mentioned your site, I mistakenly sent you an abuse complaint. Beg your pardon.

By the way, site admins are generally more polite to each other.

Have a nice day.

- Johnny

I hate being called a liar when I'm telling the truth, I hate when you eat something you've just microwaved and when you get to the middle it's still all cold, and I fucking hate being called a script kiddie. I was this close to sending him something like:

Script kiddie?! Look, dude, I can already tell I've got more code in the JAPH in my .sig than you've written in your entire life, so don't go around blah blah blah

...but I thought better of it, for a few reasons.

Anyway. Sorry. Felt like venting.

Just so it's not a total loss, here's the JAPH I had in my signature. :-)

$|=1;@_=split//,'JustAnotherPerlHacker';
do{print"\r";push@_,($_=shift@_);$_=join
'',@_;s/([JAPH])/chr(040).$1/eg;print"["
.$_."]";select($x,$x,$x,0.1)}while(1);{}

It lines up in a fixed-width font. Trust me.


[0] 419 scammer got half clever and attached a Hotmail-style signature with the guy's domain, I didn't think to check it out. Foo on me. It did get to the other (appropriate) postmasters, though.