Judging by what transpired and how the other person behaves, it sounds like he got what he deserved. Such a rotten personality shouldn't be allowed around people, let alone computers.
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#32Daniel was probably warned by many not to respond a second time, or maybe he thinks that this emailer is a crank who isn't worth responding to, but I kinda wish he would. The emailer is either experiencing the effects of curl exploits, and doing a bad job of explaining it, or is very confused about the role curl plays in exploits in general. I'm not willing to assume the latter, although I think that's the assumption most are making here.
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#33I'm sure Daniel Stenberg's life would be easier if he had chosen a different domain name.
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#35This feels to me like a person with some sort of mental illness or breakdown and delusions of grandeur and persecution. Their explanation doesn't make much sense. If I were Daniel, I wouldn't respond any further.
Yeah, I agree. In his place, I either would have done nothing, or, maybe made a police report (not that I'd expect the police to actually do anything at this stage). Generally speaking, the less you antagonize someone whose first exchange with you is "I will slaughter you," the better, IMO.
> maybe made a police report (not that I'd expect the police to actually do anything at this stage).
Indeed. But one shouldn't underestimate the chance that this wouldn't be the first report about this person. Lots of similar reports like this may actually cause them to do something.
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#36'man curl' lists Daniel. I think morons that don't know what curl is only see the 'haxx.se' domain and think it's some hacker.. it's sad a person who's written a tool used by so many people and systems everyday has to deal with nonsense like this.
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#37I'm sorry to hear that. libCurl is great and my life is better for it.
It's really best to not reply to the mentally ill people (and you can be pretty sure anyone sending something like the first is at least temporarily mentally ill).
It can sometimes be extremely tempting, I know-- especially when they've managed to say something almost perfectly constructed for pithy comeback. But it will not help you and it will not help them. If it does anything it will just encourage the behavior.
If it is any consolation lots of other people receive nasty kookmail messages -- I know first hand, in addition to the ones I get directly some of the kooks like to send massive carbon copy blasts-- as a result I have a bunch of very strange mail rules, like discarding any email that copies both a whitehouse.gov email address and Jeff Bezos, or another if both George Soros and Noam Chomsky are copied.
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#38I think this is a good case for being pseudo-anonymous online, even in free software. The vast majority of the community is nice, but it only takes one crackpot to make your life difficult. If you are pseudo-anonymous, you are at least protected, both physically and reputation wise, on the internet. We've always told kids to not give out their name or address online; it might be good advice for everyone.
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#39cURL is one of the greatest pieces of software I ever used.
Thank you, Daniel, for creating it and all the volunteers who maintain and improve it.
I donated some time ago to the project here: https://curl.haxx.se/donation.html
I encourage everyone who used it to do the same.
Don't let the crazies get to you.
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#40I'm not a psychiatrist, but it seems that this person has some severe psychotic disorder. The whole thing reads like a cheap knockoff of "A Beautiful Mind".
It also could be a alcohol induced rage moment, where the sender just vented out random stuff.