Spamming SCUM !!!

Chris Maunder

I'd also recommend SpamNet[^] cheers, Chris Maunder

Christian Graus

I suspect someone thought 'unbelieveable' meant 'where do I get more'. It's a word that could be taken both ways, and someone who does not know Chris has made the wrong assumption. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

Christian Graus

I don't think it was abuse this time, I think someone thought that 'unbelievable' meant 'really great'. But I agree - the rating system has become a waste of time. It should be for gold, or maybe silver only, to limit abuse. Even then it will happen. How about Platinum only...... ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

Chris Losinger

then rating power should only be given to people who can prove they can read at a 5th grade level or above. -c

Fractals

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Christian Graus

The subject matter is disgusting, and the inference that anyone would be interested in it is deeply disturbing. So I can see why you'd be upset. But your first sentence was a statement of fact about the email you received, and your second was 'it's unbelievable'. That word can be taken two ways, and while I'd think that most people would get your meaning, it's ambiguous enough that on first scan, someone who has no idea who you are would be, IMO, forgiven for making the wrong assumption. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

Chris Losinger

anyone who would assume i like kiddie porn is making a huge assumption (regardless of the morality of it). it's placing me in a category that probably less than 0.001% of the world's population falls into. it's an insane assumption to make. one might as well assume that i find it "unbelievable" that i get an email with a picture in it, or that i got email at all. i stand by my statement; voting power should only be given to those who can demonstrate reading comprehension. -c

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Christian Graus

Somewhere in the very long time it took this to come up in my browser, I decided that there was no point in pursuing the point. So I'll just concur - voting rights for the literate is a great platform, and I support it 100%. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

Jorgen Sigvardsson

People are unbelievable. :suss: -- Ignorant people upsets me.

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I'm gonna give it a try. I pray it won't kill email from clients or CP! -- Ignorant people upsets me.

ColinDavies

This is just further proof that email has passed its "use by date". Regardz Colin J Davies

Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:

Brad Jennings

I know what you mean, everybody in my house gets some kind of weird, disgusting porn spam everyday. The sickest one that I've gotten is women doing it with farm animals. Why would anybody want to look at that crap. I worry about all the elementary school children that have email addresses and what they might be getting in their inbox. Brad Jennings "if the golden arches shut shop, where else are the VB people going to get work." - Colin Davies

Debs 0

Christian Graus wrote: I am all for freedom of speech, I abhor the idea that the Internet become a censored world. Why should it ? I don't care what Pete Townsend likes to look at, I just don't go there and it does not affect me. I'm not sure about the context of this quote. I don't care what people look at or get up to in the privacy of their own homes as long as it's between consenting adults. If it involves kids then I would condemn it. Debbie

Christian Graus

Gosh, wasn't I worked up ? Obviously, if Pete Townsend looks at kiddie porn, I *DO* care, and hope he dies in prison, sharing a cell with a big man named Bubba who has kids. I was obviously too upset to be lucid. The site that was spammed to me was not kiddie porn, it was old guys with young girls, claiming to be father and daugher. That is sick enough, but at least all concerned were consenting adults, although it is still disgusting, and likely to lead to some scumbag raping his kid. I hope they all die horribly. Some technological means to stop anonymous email would be welcome IMO. But censorship is not, because where does it end ? Your values ? Mine ? The Popes ? George Bushes ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

Debs 0

It's an interesting discussion topic, censorship, and I'm not entirely sure where I personally would draw the line. I resent the concept of some government, Big Brother, Mary Whitehouse, or whoever telling me what I should and shouldn't see, as an adult. However, I wouldn't want dubious pornographic images to be, say, posted on a billboard outside a school. The laws that govern such stuff in the UK are in the business of censorship. So whilst in principle I oppose it, there are circumstances where I can approve of it. It's the drawing of the line that's the grey area, for me. My line may be a darn site more liberal than some, but I guess I may seem ultra conservative to others. Does this mean, though, that the line should not be drawn at all?? Aside from censorship, people are actually prosecuted for distributing or merely owning "obscene publications". Our laws in the UK have changed a fair bit in the days since Lady Chatterley's Lover was deemed as risky stuff that the public needed shielding from. There was a case more recently whereby a University library had some books confiscated that were deemed obscene, which I personally found worrying. Debbie

thowra

Christian Graus wrote: ...and your second was 'it's unbelievable'. That word can be taken two ways, and while I'd think that most people would get your meaning, it's ambiguous enough that on first scan, someone who has no idea who you are would be, IMO, forgiven for making the wrong assumption. Personally, I'd make the right assumption, as would I believe, just about anyone. In fact, you'd have to be a real pedant to believe that anyone *would* take it the wrong way. "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

thowra

I don't believe anyone subscribing to CP would be that stupid. It's more likely someone voted 1 as an indication of their opinion of the subject matter rather than the quality of the post. Now that's a more believable interpretation than the one you offered don't you think? :) "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

Debs 0

Christian Graus wrote: Some technological means to stop anonymous email would be welcome IMO. Another way would be to have a setting in your email client that either stops all html content messages, from people you don't knw maybe (more complicated filter that!) or maybe a switch to display html content as text and not act upon it. It should be fairly obvious what sort of site you were displaying by the urls... Debbie

Christian Graus

phykell wrote: In fact, you'd have to be a real pedant to believe that anyone *would* take it the wrong way. And yet it appears that someone did. I reckon whoever it was realised afterwards, but it's just not clear enough that someone already worked up on the issue couldn't, for a moment, take it the wrong way. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

Christian Graus

phykell wrote: I don't believe anyone subscribing to CP would be that stupid. Then you've not been paying attention. There are over 211,000 people. You want to vouch for ALL of them ? phykell wrote: It's more likely someone voted 1 as an indication of their opinion of the subject matter rather than the quality of the post. Then why did they not vote down MY post ? phykell wrote: Now that's a more believable interpretation than the one you offered don't you think? Not even remotely. I can't believe I'm still discussing this..... I presume the post above yours, which says 'people are unbelievable' is an indication that someone got how that word can be taken a number of ways. If you don't get that, then you'll have to take my word for it, this is too stupid a thing to argue about, and I'm having a bad enough night as it is. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

David Wulff

I hope you reported that? It's not worth checking out yourself first (in more ways that one), just send it on over to your local FBI office or whatever system you guys have in place for investigating these sorts of things. :~

David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk