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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

    Last night I got an ear infection plus bad acid reflux and didn't
    hardly sleep at all.  So you can imagine my state of mind when I got
    up this morning to find a discussion between T1 and T2 operators
    talking vaguely about an exploit they found in the servers page, and
    the page itself broken and not providing usable info.  It took me
    quite awhile to dig through everything and determine exactly what
    was done and start working towards repairing the intentional damage.
    
    OK, it's a fair point that I didn't properly sanitize the input. 
    However we're talking about a page that has been online for the past
    two years without any problems, but for some reason you decided that
    immediate action must be taken right this very second.  And not a
    single one of you assholes had the courtesy to even send me a PM to
    say "hey we found this problem in your page and these are the
    actions we took."  Seriously, I know some of you newcomers are in
    your teens, but do you really have to ACT like it?  This is a
    community project, it exists because people in the past have worked
    *together* to solve problems.  It's not a hacking contest to see who
    can blow up each other's contributions.
    
    There have been a lot of complaints about my code in the past.  Yes
    I write in Bash and PHP, and yes my code isn't going to be the
    easiest to read.  There's also the constant complaints that I don't
    post my code on repo-of-the-week, which I've discussed several times
    on IRC but nobody seems to care.  Just how many 'official'
    source-hosting pages has opennic been through?  We've been in
    sourceforge, but we don't trust them now.  What was the one that did
    SVN?  And of course there's the numerous local repos that people
    have run over the years which up and disappear one day without
    warning.  I've submitted a fair chunk of my code at least twice. 
    And poof, there's no evidence remaining that it ever existed.
    
    I have limited time to work on opennic, but I've churned out an
    incredible amount of code for the project over the years.  There is
    very little of opennic's infrastructure that I haven't had a hand in
    or written completely from scratch.  Everybody that comes through
    always has their own ideas on how things should be done, what
    changes need to be made, and yet almost none of those people have
    actually contributed anything.  Opennic owes its very existence to
    those few people such as myself who have dedicated months or years
    of programming time to provide the services that everyone else uses
    on a daily basis.  There is a huge amount of code in the background
    that I personally own and have to troubleshoot when things go
    wrong.  I spend what time I can either fixing the larger problems or
    trying to set up new code to provide features.  I have dedicated
    time nearly daily to making sure things run smoothly or fixing
    whatever is broken, and the thanks I get is "hey lets fuck up his
    shit and see how long it takes him to figure it out."  Real mature.
    
    If anyone wants a copy of my working code, I have always been happy
    to provide it.  It may take me some time to get it together, but
    I've always given it.  And I would love to have others help clean
    things up, especially the registrar code behind reg.for.free. 
    Unfortunately the only feedback I have ever gotten is "I don't like
    your standard use of single- and double-quotes... here's a rewrite
    to quote things MY way."  I don't have time to keep learning a new
    repo system every year or two and I no longer have the patience to
    care, but if someone else wants to do the deed I've already
    mentioned many times that I am happy to help work with them.
    
    I've been thinking about this all day and I'm still pissed, and
    apparently still can't even coherently express my frustration, so
    let me summarize... Grow the fuck up and learn how to actually work
    with other people who are in different times zones.  People have
    pointed out bugs in my code before, and I almost always get them
    fixed within a day or two.  Yeah I make mistakes, I know this and I
    know enough to understand the problem when they are pointed out,
    assuming you actually give me the chance.