On April 29th, 2003 at 01:01 PM MDT catfood wrote:
> Ten years ago this evening, Usenet legend Gene Spafford
> posted his farewell to news.announce.newusers, news.misc, and a few
> other newsgroups. Among other things, spaf wrote: 'People don't seem to
> think before posting, they are purposely rude, they blatantly violate
> copyrights, they crosspost everywhere, use 20 line signature files, and
> do basically every other thing the postings (and common sense and common
> courtesy) advise not to. Regularly, there are postings of questions that
> can be answered by the newusers articles, clearly indicating that they
> aren't being read.' Speaking of his own post, spaf said, 'even if it is
> perceived as self-indulgent garbage, it will fit right in with the rest
> of the net.' Ten years later, we still have all of spaf's complaints
> plus mounting spammage just barely held in check by auto-canceling
> volunteers. Is Usenet still useful? Is it worth maintaining? I say yes,
> but I can feel spaf's pain. It may be too late now, but hey spaf: thanks.
Lucky Spam Recipients....
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Too bad it took 46000 complaints to prompt some action
Here at home, I usually average about 74,000 complaints before I get any action. *sigh*
Yes, all printers suck, some less than others. Our current printer is a DeskJet 550c, and it is an utter piece of garbage. I swear, the best printer I ever owned was an old Okidata ML dot-matrix printer.
I personally find the repetition humorous. It's like the Simpsons episode (Cape Feare?) where Sideshow Bob steps on the rakes over, and over, and over again. It goes from funny, to "ok, when is this going to stop", to "alright, this is pretty damned comical".
Assuming the company does need to retain credit card information for some time after a transaction, that doesn't mean they need to store the information on a well-connected machine. There are much more secure methods of retaining said information.
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On April 29th, 2003 at 01:01 PM MDT catfood wrote:
> Ten years ago this evening, Usenet legend Gene Spafford
> posted his farewell to news.announce.newusers, news.misc, and a few
> other newsgroups. Among other things, spaf wrote: 'People don't seem to
> think before posting, they are purposely rude, they blatantly violate
> copyrights, they crosspost everywhere, use 20 line signature files, and
> do basically every other thing the postings (and common sense and common
> courtesy) advise not to. Regularly, there are postings of questions that
> can be answered by the newusers articles, clearly indicating that they
> aren't being read.' Speaking of his own post, spaf said, 'even if it is
> perceived as self-indulgent garbage, it will fit right in with the rest
> of the net.' Ten years later, we still have all of spaf's complaints
> plus mounting spammage just barely held in check by auto-canceling
> volunteers. Is Usenet still useful? Is it worth maintaining? I say yes,
> but I can feel spaf's pain. It may be too late now, but hey spaf: thanks.
Too bad it took 46000 complaints to prompt some action
Here at home, I usually average about 74,000 complaints before I get any action. *sigh*
Yes, all printers suck, some less than others. Our current printer is a DeskJet 550c, and it is an utter piece of garbage. I swear, the best printer I ever owned was an old Okidata ML dot-matrix printer.
I personally find the repetition humorous. It's like the Simpsons episode (Cape Feare?) where Sideshow Bob steps on the rakes over, and over, and over again. It goes from funny, to "ok, when is this going to stop", to "alright, this is pretty damned comical".
For most here, the only calorie expenditure to be had on a daily basis is the lifting of the candy bar to the mouth.
Please don't take that away.
...buy the book here, and support stores that protect their customers' privacy.
"How do I get this freakin' duck away from me!?"
Ah....another Homestar fan. Seriously folks, that site is gweat.
A beowu...*thawp*
Sorry.
Just buy a bunch of boxes and start throwing things in.
Support bookstores that protect their customers' privacy.
-Steve
The logo has always reminded me of DRI's thrasher logo (as seen best on the Thrash Zone cover). So, yeah, I definitely think the project has an edge.
How about supporting companies who look out for their customers' privacy?
The Tattered Cover - $39.95
-Steve
winter:~$ lynx -head -dump http://www3.gartner.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:51:09 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 0
Connection: close
anathema:~$ uptime
10:51pm up 489 days, 6:53, 3 users, load average: 1.52, 1.56, 1.50
"Hey, that's a killer shirt!"
"Thanks, it's the shit."
Slight improvement:
/bin/sh
>$1
what would you say of translator wearable of language when on a foreign execution?
PARSER ERROR
Assuming the company does need to retain credit card information for some time after a transaction, that doesn't mean they need to store the information on a well-connected machine. There are much more secure methods of retaining said information.
The post did not say they were jailed for spamming. Read it again.
Cool. I had been wondering where their threaded search results settings went. Very handy, thanks.