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Peter Ceresole wrote:
> BRUCE HODDER <bruce.hodder.RemoveThis@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but all the spam on this site really puts me
>>off
>
>
> If you accessed it using a news server that filters spam well, like
> news.individual.net, you would see no spam at all. Maybe worth spending
> 10 euros a year (seven quid) to get a really good news feed?

Well, anyone who would click on a MAKE MONEY FAST line expecting
"interesting new comments" might not be ready for non-issue software.

Heh.

Talking back to spammers reminds me of one of my old country hometown
acquaintences newly brought online with old school mates. They were, of
course, in the tradition of fledglings everywhere, of the habit of
swapping all those cute jokes called "forwards." I warned them, and was
laughed at. And then - bing! bing! bing! - they began going down with
virust attacks, and had to take their machines to experts for surgery.

And this one, very upset, wrote into our online group: "Mort (husband)
and I would like the name and address of whoever it was sent us this virus."

I loved it. Never left Texas, raised in a small town, and she thinks of
any neighborhood as comprehensive and manageable.

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Doubting Timus <woesong DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> They were, of
> course, in the tradition of fledglings everywhere, of the habit of
> swapping all those cute jokes called "forwards."

Oh hell, don't... I have a cousin who does that. Otherwise a sensible
chap. Amazing what people do.
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Peter Ceresole wrote:
> Doubting Timus <woesong.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>They were, of
>>course, in the tradition of fledglings everywhere, of the habit of
>>swapping all those cute jokes called "forwards."
>
>
> Oh hell, don't... I have a cousin who does that. Otherwise a sensible
> chap. Amazing what people do.

Oh, yes, and some deadly advice comes from the experts, too. They say,
don't click on attachments unless you know the sender! Shoot, spoofing
mail is how these creeps began the trade. I see slime all the time
addressed from me!

These are old folks, these forum members I'm talking about, but they're
just like teenagers in that until it happens to them it has no reality.


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Dan Fox <danfoxart RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> I never heard of 'forwards.' what are they?

You lucky fellow.

Think of some load of stuff. Possibly funny, usually not. Sometimes
political, often well over the top. Say pictures of George Bush matched
to identical pictures of chimpanzees, which covers all those bases.
Nothing wrong with that in itself, except that chimps don't suffer from
long term alcohol induced brain damage so they have less excuse for the
damage they do. Anyway, somebody puts it up on a site somewhere. Some
other guy loves it, incorporates it into a mail which he sends to all
his dwindling collection of friends. Most of whom use the 'forward'
button on their mail client and put their address book contents into the
Cc: line. And so it goes.

It's a disease.
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Peter Ceresole wrote:


> Think of some load of stuff. Possibly funny, usually not. Sometimes
> political, often well over the top. Say pictures of George Bush matched
> to identical pictures of chimpanzees, which covers all those bases.
> Nothing wrong with that in itself, except that chimps don't suffer from
> long term alcohol induced brain damage so they have less excuse for the
> damage they do.

Reminds me of the British critic who was appalled at all the "Pig"
epithets around Chicago in 1968. After all, they are maligning
sensitive and intelligent animals!

> It's a disease.

It's like entry-level publication. Those who wade into the game can
instantly become producers of waste, which is the American ideal. One
of these net chestnuts comes over the transom with a long CC list from
someone else's rolodex and you just hit the forward key to move it over
to your own.

Back in 2000, there was a millenial interest back in our old high school
for reunion, and some online groups formed. One guy would join the
groups merely to collect addresses. Then he would vanish. Never wrote
a word in the ordinary give and take of the group, and then you'd see
all these forwards coming down the pike, but with one exception: they
were all unattributed. He used his own partiular style sheet, and we
were all, until we forced him to drop our names, obliged to think him
the clever creator of all that garbage. It was the equivalent of making
up a resume just for the reunion.

Of course at this primitive level of development you don't know what a
virus is, and those who write them are well aware of that.



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