From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 07:09:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD4816A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE4543D55 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:09:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1378w5n028241 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:08:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42014AD3.1030502@locolomo.org> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 03 Feb 2005 08:08:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <42014AD3.1030502@locolomo.org> Message-ID: <86k6pq2k9x.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:09:07 -0000 Erik Norgaard 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. It just struck me - the message layout was invented by a top poster. 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"