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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