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"Charlie Wilkes" link.net wrote in message ... In article , "meee" wrote: as a newbie to usenet, You showed up at a good time not to stay a newbie for very long. Stick around. There are some good cat people here, too. i was inclined to think you were all mad, or that you were innocents being annoyed by a bunch of bored teenagers. However there seems to be something else going on. Yep. The crux of the problem is that some people aren't satisfied to keep it in the group, and either ignore or flame whoever they don't like. Instead, they have taken to various strategies such as getting together and sending a lot of abuse reports and worse, undertaking detective work to find out private information about people and reveal it in the group... anonymously, of course. That is a harmful practice. Krazy Kat is here as the masked avenger. And I gotta tell you, I'm ambivalent, because the man is going after ALL the right people, and I can't help but savor that with glee. I guess I like Krazy Kat as the untouchable commentator, but I don't like the flooding. But I'll take the bad with the good. Just my opinion. Charlie Charlie, as usual I'm agreeing with you 100%. I also think that some people like to use this group as a popularity contest, "look at me, I'm great I just rescued 5 kittens and bought lotttttttttttttttttttttttts of toys for them and took pics to show everyone and well gee ain't I wonderful". Meanwhile these same people overstep boundaries and take things to rl, which is totally inexcusable. |
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"5cats" wrote in message ... meee wrote: Even if someone in the group was being obnoxious, wouldn't you just block them and/or not open their posts? Yes, normally you would. But, it seems that at least one person kept nym- shifting, which would make blocking them more difficult. (hearsay, I wasn't here at the time) In a court of law hearsay means sweet f*ck all, so zip it here too, if you don't know the facts then stop feeding bull**** |
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Trish wrote in message .. . "Charlie Wilkes" link.net wrote in message ... In article , "meee" wrote: as a newbie to usenet, You showed up at a good time not to stay a newbie for very long. Stick around. There are some good cat people here, too. i was inclined to think you were all mad, or that you were innocents being annoyed by a bunch of bored teenagers. However there seems to be something else going on. Yep. The crux of the problem is that some people aren't satisfied to keep it in the group, and either ignore or flame whoever they don't like. Instead, they have taken to various strategies such as getting together and sending a lot of abuse reports and worse, undertaking detective work to find out private information about people and reveal it in the group... anonymously, of course. That is a harmful practice. Krazy Kat is here as the masked avenger. And I gotta tell you, I'm ambivalent, because the man is going after ALL the right people, and I can't help but savor that with glee. I guess I like Krazy Kat as the untouchable commentator, but I don't like the flooding. But I'll take the bad with the good. Just my opinion. Charlie Charlie, as usual I'm agreeing with you 100%. I also think that some people like to use this group as a popularity contest, "look at me, I'm great I just rescued 5 kittens and bought lotttttttttttttttttttttttts of toys for them and took pics to show everyone and well gee ain't I wonderful". Meanwhile these same people overstep boundaries and take things to rl, which is totally inexcusable. ROTFL very true trish! hail to the cat gods! |
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Lamey - The cable guy yammered:
On 14 Sep 2005 16:41:15 -0700, wrote: Lamey - The cable guy wrote: Just purty. There's always a line around me...I guess that'd be a circle. There's always a circle around me. Candace A jerk circle? Yeah, I'm purty sure that's what they're all doing Candace Send them away and let me have my way with you. You dog, I saw her first |
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:17:31 GMT, Justin L
wrote: I don' understand what you mean here. You can download malicious software from a number of places, if you are into that sort of thing. If you are really interested in playing around with that crap, set up a small network, not connected to the net, just to be safe. You never know what it can do... My point is mainly that I'm open to the learning experience. My system is easy to reconstitute from scratch if necessary. Unfortunately all the scripts are compiled. I'll bet they were compiled before these boneheads got them, too. Do you patch your operating system? No. I'm more worried about what MS might decide to put on my drive than I am about these kids. why? Why would MS want to put anything malicious on your computer? I know, it is popular to hate and fear the evil MS shrug All reputations are earned. S corporate customers are the ones who want all these script processors baked into the OS, so they can manipulate systems and get information when people visit their web sites. The kids are doing the same thing big corporations pay programmers in India to do. Actually, MS is supposedly trying to put a stop to all that crap infecting IE. http://research.microsoft.com/HoneyMonkey/ They have two incompatible agendas. Yes, they want the OS to be secure. But they also want to make powerful scripting capabilities available so that businesses can deliver more "services" over the internet. Unfortunately, a lot of these "services" involve deception. I signed up for a free Juno account, and pretty soon they installed spyware on my machine, labeled as though it was some sort of enhancement. They are entitled to do it because it's a free, ad-supported account. But it's still crap I don't want. The fewer script engines I can get by with, the less of that **** I deal with. But MS wants me to have them all, because they are selling the development tools to exploit them. I paid $25 for a special W98 installer that cuts the size of the installation in half, with no functionality lost that I care about. You are probably right, since you are using a dial up connection you are relatively safe. I would still read up on some computer security. An excellent site is www.grc.com He has security scans set up so you can test your system, and he isn't trying to sell you anything... I am going to get some security going on my system, including a good firewall. This isn't really a big problem, but it's a nuisance. Charlie |
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