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Re: What's The World Coming To?

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On 08-15-2012 14:20, Don Bruder wrote:
> anything-and-everything-I-hear-about.facebook.com gets a hosts file
> entry that points to 127.0.0.1 as soon as convenient once I become aware
> of the linkage. An action that any reasonably intelligent person would
> also perform. (Which doesn't say much for the smarts of the
> way-too-damned-many people who think it's anything more than a way to
> scrape up as much information about you as possible to use in bombarding
> you with more and more ads designed to entice you into paying for

I resisted it for a long time.  Gave in when a certain relative got 
himself into a jam with FB the only way to communicate with him.

I've stayed on, for the sake of contact with other relatives that act as 
if no other communications medium exists.  But it's true that constant 
vigilance is necessary to keep it's fingers out of my hip pocket.

-- 
Wes Groleau

Expert, n.:
         Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides.

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What's The World Coming To? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-15 12:48 -0400
  Re: What's The World Coming To? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-15 17:49 +0100
    Re: What's The World Coming To? Don Bruder <fake@spamdump.invalid> - 2012-08-15 11:20 -0700
      Re: What's The World Coming To? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-08-15 18:38 +0000
        Re: What's The World Coming To? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-15 14:47 -0400
          Re: What's The World Coming To? Don Bruder <fake@spamdump.invalid> - 2012-08-15 14:12 -0700
      Re: What's The World Coming To? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-15 22:47 -0400
        Re: What's The World Coming To? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-08-15 23:54 -0400
          Re: What's The World Coming To? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-16 00:13 -0400
            Re: What's The World Coming To? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-16 04:29 +0000
          Re: What's The World Coming To? Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2012-08-16 06:49 +0200
            Re: What's The World Coming To? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-16 13:08 +0000
          Re: What's The World Coming To? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-08-16 17:55 +0000
            Re: What's The World Coming To? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-16 15:29 -0400
              Re: What's The World Coming To? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-16 13:52 -0700
                Re: What's The World Coming To? gerencia@gruposemtel.com - 2012-08-16 14:36 -0700
                Re: What's The World Coming To? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-08-16 22:02 +0000
              Re: What's The World Coming To? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-17 05:02 +0000
            Re: What's The World Coming To? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-18 00:34 -0400
              Re: What's The World Coming To? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-08-19 14:23 +0000
              Re: What's The World Coming To? Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2012-08-19 09:37 -0500
                Re: What's The World Coming To? Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-19 10:47 -0400
    Re: What's The World Coming To? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-15 20:43 +0000
      Re: What's The World Coming To? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-15 21:25 -0400
        Re: What's The World Coming To? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-16 03:32 +0000
    Re: What's The World Coming To? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-15 21:24 -0400
  Re: What's The World Coming To? Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2012-08-17 01:26 -0400
    Re: What's The World Coming To? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-18 00:16 -0400

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