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Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii)

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In news:8on2v61mjtbu2ja2oqshhjvf39fclrdjie@mfesser.de,
Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> typed:
> .oO(Twayne)
>
>> In news:bn52v651iom5pmsjr54g42rtri1bll025f@mfesser.de,
>> Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> typed:
>>> .oO(sheldonlg)
>>>
>>>> Anyone who thinks that someone in computer newsgroup
>>>> would actually click on a bare link (or any untrusted
>>>> link) like that has got to be a total idiot.
>>>
>>> Why? A link is a link. If you think it could do any
>>> harm, you might want to check your system security, the
>>> used software and review your browser settings.
>>
>> I don't click any strange lnks without looking at a
>> reputaton and RBL first.
>
> Sure. And before kissing a woman you ask their parents
> about some known sexually transmitted diseases she might
> have? Just in case.

Maybe you do, but I don't screw strange women. Why the zeal for asking 
parents? Are you young enough that every gal you've ever met had parents who 
were alive?
   When I was in the Philippines I befriended a lot of "bar-girls" and even 
got to go with them a few times for their monthly physical and checkups for 
diseases. It was interesting but I never screwed any of them.
   You apparently wouldn't know how to protect yourself if you did get a 
chance to screw a woman, whore or not.

>
>> Secret links such as that one could be anythng but one
>> thing they always are is useless and of no use, so why
>> click?
>
> On a properly configured and maintained system just
> opening a URL in a browser can't do any harm.

Oh, it definitely could do you harm. Once you log onto a web site, it has 
all it needs to send youi whatever it wants to. You need some more education 
there, too.

 After all
> it's just about displaying some textual content in a web
> browser! If you're paranoid, the Web is the wrong place
> for you.

Actually, it's the wrong place for you by the sound of it. Yes, I'm paranoid 
about hidden sites. It's easier to post a functional Fully Qualified URL 
than it is to go get it shortened, come back and post it to the site. For 
the user it's just a click either way if you posted the URL properly and it 
didn't get caught/separated apart by line breaks; that would be your fault, 
not anyone elses in not knowing how to properly place URLs in a mail or a 
post.

>
>>> In my sig there's another bare and untrusted link - you
>>> can click it, if you have the balls! SCNR

You couldn't possibly have anything I would be interested in so I'll never 
bother to click on YOUR links, no matter what. Do YOU click on links that 
have nothing of interest to you?

>>
>> More importantly, your sig is spam.
>
> Wrong. Obviously you don't know what 'spam' means. And
> even if I wanted to advertise something - in my sig I can
> do whatever I want, it just should be beneath an on-topic
> posting if possible.

No, that's correct and in several definitions plus the netiquette RFC you'll 
find that it can indeed be considered spam. It's "bulk" (sent to anyone who 
opens your post), nothing I want, not relevant to me, and in general useless 
to me. That meets the definitions of UCE and UBE.

HTH,

Twayne`

> Micha

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haiii MANIKANDAN KRISHNA <manikrisnha@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 02:57 -0700
  He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) sheldonlg <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2011-06-09 08:25 -0400
    Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 08:54 -0400
      Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-06-09 09:42 -0400
      Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) sheldonlg <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2011-06-09 10:03 -0400
        Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 10:25 -0400
    Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-06-09 09:41 -0400
    Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-06-09 21:12 +0200
      Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) sheldonlg <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2011-06-09 16:14 -0400
        Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) sheldonlg <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2011-06-09 16:16 -0400
      Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-06-09 19:22 -0400
        Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-06-10 02:16 +0200
          Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-06-11 14:10 -0400
            Re: He must be an idiot (Was: haiii) Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-06-11 22:50 +0200

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