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I feel for him. When my old machine learning email filter, POPFile(1), was popular there was a great community around it. But sometimes I would get hate mail. I

I feel for him. When my old machine learning email filter, POPFile(1), was popular there was a great community around it. But sometimes I would get hate mail. I still recall one person who accused me of having destroyed his computer (I guess something bad happened to his disk) in an email filled with swear words, threats and more. (1) http://getpopfile.org/ http://getpopfile.org/

aksels 8y ago
http://getpopfile.org http://getpopfile.org It seems that https is not supported
- jgrahamc 8y ago
  That's odd. I'll get that fixed!
rqs 8y ago
I quote from myself: Among those haters, idiots hurts the most. Been an idiot myself, I know how many damage I can cause & caused. Lucky, through out many years, I've learnt to investigate the problem first, before deciding whether or not to send hate mail/comments. Sometime, during the investigation, I'll found out the fact that I was the one who actually caused the problem, because I'm such an idiot. When that happens, I will just sit on my chair for few seconds to appreciate the time that I've saved for not to write the hate message with my broken English. Sadly, investigating is a skill not everybody have.
- rectang 8y ago
  Congratulations on the success of your investigation and reflection! Undertaking that effort makes you an exceptional individual IMO. The medium of the internet brings out the worst in all of us -- even the most empathetic among us are worse people on the net than IRL, because we are all missing that feedback.
- jolmg 8y ago
  > When that happens, I will just sit on my chair for few seconds to appreciate the time that I've saved for not to write the hate message with my broken English Don't appreciate the time saved; appreciate having avoided the embarrassment of falsely accusing someone for your own actions. I mean, it's interesting that you don't think of the other party that avoided receiving a misdirected hateful message, and just think of your own time saved. Also, what good do hate messages do for anybody? Why even consider writing one? If you need to vent, can't you do so privately, or share constructive, open-minded criticism free of hate?
protomyth 8y ago
For a mostly silly, but probably stress causing account of this: Attack of the Repo Men http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html Friends of mine swore by your software, never at it.
southerndrift 8y ago
Hopefully you could enjoy the irony of the situation.
StavrosK 8y ago
You made POPfile? I remember using it in the nineties, good job! Small world, huh.
- jgrahamc 8y ago
  I did. But you weren't using it in the 1990s. I started in early 2001.
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    Anything before 2015 is the nineties to me! But you're right, I only got an internet connection around 2000, so it must have been then.

aksels 8y ago

http://getpopfile.org http://getpopfile.org It seems that https is not supported

jgrahamc 8y ago
That's odd. I'll get that fixed!

rqs 8y ago

I quote from myself: Among those haters, idiots hurts the most. Been an idiot myself, I know how many damage I can cause & caused. Lucky, through out many years, I've learnt to investigate the problem first, before deciding whether or not to send hate mail/comments. Sometime, during the investigation, I'll found out the fact that I was the one who actually caused the problem, because I'm such an idiot. When that happens, I will just sit on my chair for few seconds to appreciate the time that I've saved for not to write the hate message with my broken English. Sadly, investigating is a skill not everybody have.

rectang 8y ago
Congratulations on the success of your investigation and reflection! Undertaking that effort makes you an exceptional individual IMO. The medium of the internet brings out the worst in all of us -- even the most empathetic among us are worse people on the net than IRL, because we are all missing that feedback.
jolmg 8y ago
> When that happens, I will just sit on my chair for few seconds to appreciate the time that I've saved for not to write the hate message with my broken English Don't appreciate the time saved; appreciate having avoided the embarrassment of falsely accusing someone for your own actions. I mean, it's interesting that you don't think of the other party that avoided receiving a misdirected hateful message, and just think of your own time saved. Also, what good do hate messages do for anybody? Why even consider writing one? If you need to vent, can't you do so privately, or share constructive, open-minded criticism free of hate?

protomyth 8y ago

For a mostly silly, but probably stress causing account of this: Attack of the Repo Men http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html Friends of mine swore by your software, never at it.

southerndrift 8y ago

Hopefully you could enjoy the irony of the situation.

StavrosK 8y ago

You made POPfile? I remember using it in the nineties, good job! Small world, huh.

jgrahamc 8y ago
I did. But you weren't using it in the 1990s. I started in early 2001.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Anything before 2015 is the nineties to me! But you're right, I only got an internet connection around 2000, so it must have been then.