On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:31:07AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
The advantage of eg Yahoo groups (and presumably blogs) is their moderation; the lack thereof enabled spammers to bulldoze the commons of usenet. Inevitable.
I've been hearing about blog-spamming lately, and I've seen spammers attack web boards as well. Spammers are also using worms to get control of victim's machines and sending their spam from there.
Kids these days don't know how to use shell shortcuts either.
Not sure what you mean by that. "Shortcut" is a M$ term for lame-ass sym link.
Sorry, I was in a hurry. History substition is what I meant... i.e. % ericm > mkdir /home/cpun % ericm > ^pun^punk % ericm > cd !$ etc. or any of the hundreds of other history substitution commands. No one I work with knows any of them; they all either laboriously re-type or use the command-line editor even when it requires many more keystrokes. I try to restrain myself from barking out "bang dollar! bang dollar dammit!" but sometimes I can't help it. Eric