Re: UNIX Admin with EDA experience

On Mon, 19 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<vilain-CA9949.20025019052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Vilain wrote:

Doug Freyburger <dfreybur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Vilain <vil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

TAOS used to be such a respected sysadmin company here in the Bay area. <A0>
Now they're hiring clueless idiots for business development (the people
that look for the jobs and the "talent").

The post came from a gmail aco*** not a work account.
Any chance it's a disgruntled former employee trying to
paint them as spammers?

The headers said

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From: SK <skawata50@xxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: UNIX Admin with EDA experience
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:20:32 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
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Message-ID: <227f365d-b6a6-45f9-8369-b8eda1bbc0a6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.110.186.126
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Don't know for sure, but the post was from an AT&T IP address.

Not just AT&T

[compton ~]$ host 12.110.186.126
Host not found.
[compton ~]$ arinwhois 12.110.186.126
[whois.arin.net]
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1)
12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255
AT&T WorldNet Services ATTSVCM-12-110-184-0 (NET-12-110-184-0-1)
12.110.184.0 - 12.110.191.255
TAOS MOUNTAIN TAOS-MOU42-186 (NET-12-110-186-0-1)
12.110.186.0 - 12.110.186.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-05-19 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
[compton ~/incoming]$ arinwhois NET-12-110-186-0-1
[compton ~]$

And the poster gave his Taos email address which, when I LARTed it,
didn't bounce so it's valid. If someone's trying to get that person
in trouble, they did a good job.

It also says something about the "skill" at Taos - either they can't
secure their own freakin' network, or they can't physically secure
the place, or they really do have brane-dead fsck-ups trying to
find talent. Joe-job or not - it's a negative.

Old guy
.