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Date:      03 Feb 2005 08:08:10 +0100
From:      peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)
Message-ID:  <86k6pq2k9x.fsf@amidala.datadok.no>
In-Reply-To: <42014AD3.1030502@locolomo.org>
References:  <42014AD3.1030502@locolomo.org>

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Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> writes:

> What makes me wonder is that these messages are always at the end, when 
> you have read the secret message. If anything it will only make me alert 
> that this could be secret, and if I am evil, ofcourse I would not delete 
> the mail.

<eureka>
It just struck me - the message layout was invented by a top poster.
</eureka>

Deep down, they know that they need to start at the bottom in order to
make sense of the babble on top. Next up, we'll see them hyping this as
a patentable business method. 

After all, I've seen credible evidence that MSexchange (IIRC) litters
messages with X-ThreadIndex and X-ThreadSubject headers, apparently
attempting to reinvent References: and other usenet features.

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"



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