I don't think IE has reported email addresses since IE2. What you do have to watch out for is tags on the spammer's URL that will ID you if you click on it. Also, if you're fool enough to read email with HTML switched on, image loads frequently have a tag too.
He's not nuking a spammer's system. He's blocking email from entering his systems. Those are his systems and he can block for whatever reason he wants. The spammer is still free to operate as he pleases (on his intranet as more people block him).
Do they still exist? Their IP resolves to 0.0.0.0 on my machine these days. I tolerate banner ads--sites have to pay the rent--but when they get in my face, they get borkken. (Do the "Microsoft has balls" banners still run on Slashdot? That one was just too annoying.)
True, he could have worded more gently, but it remains that this isn't his fight of choice. If it wasn't for the spammer dragging him further into this, he would have washed his hands of it long ago.
I can't fault someone for setting limits on how much effort to spend on that turd. And if he didn't have opinions and wasn't afraid to say them, do you think he would have gotten this far?:^P
Since anyone who would buy that evidence-excriment is (a) a Windows user, (b) a loser, he's not exactly wrong. (Blunt, but not wrong.)
How about if the sign looked exactly like one of the normal freeway signs, directed you to the exit you were looking for, and you ended up in the parking lot of that car dealer?
Yeah, what would happen if everyone had to cruise the net rather than picking up the important but deep-linked news and information that I post in my.sig?
Yeah right. Hang around LaFleurs at 2am and take notes on how many people order "chien chaud" and how many order a "'otdog". Damn I miss deux all-dressed, fries and a coke at 2am -- with cayenne pepper. (Maybe I'm thinking of LeDibblers?)
This will be about as successful as the Quebec Office de la Langue Français' attempts to get people to stop using hotdog and hamburger. (They invented words for those too.)
I've always thought that if I could grow a reasonable looking beard that didn't irritate the hell out of me, it could be worth a few thousand more in the job market.
A solid beard lets you look sage while stroking it and giving a measured Hmmm and a nod, while you try to figure out what the hell to do next.
Alternately I could extend my moustache to a Fu Manchu and try out for the next Evil Overlord position that opens up. (I've got the laugh, but an extreme moustache is a job requirement, bastards.)
The Fight the Patent site has a number of links to news articles and info. (Cute gif at the bottom.) Try not to slashdot them too badly, single file please...
"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this."
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I don't think IE has reported email addresses since IE2. What you do have to watch out for is tags on the spammer's URL that will ID you if you click on it. Also, if you're fool enough to read email with HTML switched on, image loads frequently have a tag too.
Oops, didn't notice the reboot in his script. That's just plain rude. Tempting, but wrong.
I thought that posts that were completely wrong couldn't be informative?
He's not nuking a spammer's system. He's blocking email from entering his systems. Those are his systems and he can block for whatever reason he wants. The spammer is still free to operate as he pleases (on his intranet as more people block him).
No way! They use Evidence-Eliminator... :^P
Do they still exist? Their IP resolves to 0.0.0.0 on my machine these days. I tolerate banner ads--sites have to pay the rent--but when they get in my face, they get borkken. (Do the "Microsoft has balls" banners still run on Slashdot? That one was just too annoying.)
I can't fault someone for setting limits on how much effort to spend on that turd. And if he didn't have opinions and wasn't afraid to say them, do you think he would have gotten this far? :^P
Since anyone who would buy that evidence-excriment is (a) a Windows user, (b) a loser, he's not exactly wrong. (Blunt, but not wrong.)
"You don't want to take over the universe do you? You wouldn't know what to do with it. Except shout at it."
- Dr. Who.
Because they'll have it and we won't?
Is it just me or does this story seem a little old? :^P
I don't live there any more, so they can bite my hairy anglo ass!
Never mind the Mile High club, what about the group of nudists that charter flights to Fly Naked?
*ahem*, "Quebec Office de la Langue Français". Take it up with them.
How about if the sign looked exactly like one of the normal freeway signs, directed you to the exit you were looking for, and you ended up in the parking lot of that car dealer?
Yeah, what would happen if everyone had to cruise the net rather than picking up the important but deep-linked news and information that I post in my .sig?
That which is not dead can eternal lie,
and with strange eons even death may die.
That one was in common use in Montreal back when BBSs were big. (Or at least in Laval where Babillard was located.)
Yeah right. Hang around LaFleurs at 2am and take notes on how many people order "chien chaud" and how many order a "'otdog". Damn I miss deux all-dressed, fries and a coke at 2am -- with cayenne pepper. (Maybe I'm thinking of LeDibblers?)
This will be about as successful as the Quebec Office de la Langue Français' attempts to get people to stop using hotdog and hamburger. (They invented words for those too.)
Ah good, I'll patent my business methods involving clown suits there first. (Of course, McDicks might try to claim prior art, details!)
A solid beard lets you look sage while stroking it and giving a measured Hmmm and a nod, while you try to figure out what the hell to do next.
Alternately I could extend my moustache to a Fu Manchu and try out for the next Evil Overlord position that opens up. (I've got the laugh, but an extreme moustache is a job requirement, bastards.)
Perhaps you're thinking of British Telecom (BT) who tried and failed to patent hyperlinks?
Next time I'll find a link to a Japanese dancing robot with more tentacles, just for you.
The Fight the Patent site has a number of links to news articles and info. (Cute gif at the bottom.) Try not to slashdot them too badly, single file please...
"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this."
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