seems ol' Taylor has been a busy boy.


Mayor Paxton said that he received around 300 e-mails because of the misunderstanding, and Jerry Taylor eventually removed his own e-mail link from the web site to stop the continual flow of correspondence from people around the world.

Taylor said that he didn\ufffdt understand why so many people were concerned about an e-mail exchange between two people.

\ufffdThis is just a bunch of freaks out there that don\ufffdt have anything better to do,\ufffd he said. \ufffdWhen I came in to work Monday morning, I had about 500 e-mails, plus anonymous phone calls from all the geeks out there. [CentOS is] a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he\ufffds got on his hands.\ufffd
[link|http://www.tuttletimes.com/local/local_story_088201244.html| Source ]

Which is leading to more mayhem...
"The guy is having a lot fun with it. He put it out on the registry, I guess," Taylor told the paper. "I've gotten about 500 e-mails with it, all kinds of obscene (stuff), so you know the level of person who is responding." [Did he really say the obscene word "shit"? - Ed]

This leads us to wonder if the paper's technology reporter Jim Stafford knows something we don't. Where is this "registry" and how do you put things on it? This means of information dispersal seems almost Biblical.

Stafford and his editor have declined our requests to explain where we can find the "registry," but they are looking into the matter - seriously. If you know where the registry is or can explain its special powers, send Stafford a line.
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/30/tuttle_fbi_pledge/| Register ]

[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/08/tuttle_freaks/|Overall source]

I still have to give the CentOS developer credit. I think I would've responded to his first email with "Well, if you're worried that we hacked into your box, you could disconnect it from the network. Then again, we may have anticpated that - and if we detect that they're no network connect, we could then fry your harddrive. Fact it d00d. We OWNZ Y3R B0X3N! W3 R 3l373!"

Which would promply get the FBI called on me. But then again, I'd probably like that.