Please be careful renaming threads!

Steve Wertz said:

Becca said:

plenty of people are trying to send me greeting cards.

I've been getting a ton of those lately. They want you to
download a virus/trojan that turns your machine into one of their
own personal spam generators.

-sw

Too bad these people do not use their skills in a positive way.

Becca

Steve Wertz said:

Becca said:

plenty of people are trying to send me greeting cards.

I've been getting a ton of those lately. They want you to
download a virus/trojan that turns your machine into one of their
own personal spam generators.

-sw

lately i've been getting e-mails with just a header and a .pdf
attachment. i don't open them, but can a virus hide in one?

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:18:28 GMT, blake murphy <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Steve Wertz said:

Becca said:

plenty of people are trying to send me greeting cards.

I've been getting a ton of those lately. They want you to
download a virus/trojan that turns your machine into one of their
own personal spam generators.

-sw

lately i've been getting e-mails with just a header and a .pdf
attachment. i don't open them, but can a virus hide in one?

You didn't scan the attachments?

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blake murphy said:

lately i've been getting e-mails with just a header and a .pdf
attachment. i don't open them, but can a virus hide in one?

I doubt it, especially since I use FoxIt PDF reader rather than
Adobe.

I have my mail server (fastmail.fm) set to discard any incoming
mails that have blank subjects or contain PDF's or ZIP's. Now
they're sending JPG's and GIF's.

-sw

In article <[email hidden]>,

Goomba38 said:

mooncup said:

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

Please don't rename threads unless you're changing the topic of
discussion. I don't know how other newsreaders work, but Agent threads
posts by title, so now I have a screen FULL of 'can I be your dowager'
(Fred) etc mini-threads... there was nothing wrong with the original
thread, but now it's broken up into a billion parts instead of neatly
together.

How about just starting new threads instead of hijacking existing ones?

How about people just emailing the personal responses to the other party
directly instead? Wouldn't that be more direct and save everyone else
any trouble?

Good idea, although many people post no valid Email address because of
spam. I post a valid address. I got a half dozen identical spams this
morning. It was pretty easy to delete them.

In article <[email hidden]>,

blake murphy said:

lately i've been getting e-mails with just a header and a .pdf
attachment. i don't open them, but can a virus hide in one?

Can't answer your question, but I assume that spam filters can't read
..pdf and .gif files, so they don't get filtered by my ISP.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Omelet said:

I simply killfiled it. ;-)

But what did you killfile? I have 19 options.

sf said:

In most cases, your AV scans incoming and outgoing messages
automatically. Are you really saying you don't have an AV?

I don't. Never had, never will. And I've never had a virus (or
a trojan (no, not the rubber) for more than a couple minutes).

-sw

"Steve Wertz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

<cut to the tasty part>

Quoted message said:

ObFood: Dinner was a spicy chicken stuffed avocado, deep fried,
and topped with chipotle sauce and cheese.

You keep coming up with ideas like that you may just find yourself back in
my good graces.

Felice

Steve Wertz said:

sf said:

In most cases, your AV scans incoming and outgoing messages
automatically. Are you really saying you don't have an AV?

I don't. Never had, never will. And I've never had a virus (or
a trojan (no, not the rubber) for more than a couple minutes).

I might continue to be interested if you had AV, but since you don't
care - why should I?

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.

Felice Friese said:

"Steve Wertz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

<cut to the tasty part>

Quoted message said:

ObFood: Dinner was a spicy chicken stuffed avocado, deep fried,
and topped with chipotle sauce and cheese.

You keep coming up with ideas like that you may just find yourself back in
my good graces.

He should have stopped at "chicken stuffed", but I'd like to know if
it was a mayonaise based chicken stuffing.

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.

In article
<[email hidden]>,

Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Omelet said:

I simply killfiled it. ;-)

But what did you killfile? I have 19 options.

What was I saying again?

I wish you would quote just a LITTLE more!
I generally do key word killfiles or simply pick "kill this subject".
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack Nicholson

sf said:

Steve Wertz said:

sf said:

In most cases, your AV scans incoming and outgoing messages
automatically. Are you really saying you don't have an AV?

I don't. Never had, never will. And I've never had a virus (or
a trojan (no, not the rubber) for more than a couple minutes).

I might continue to be interested if you had AV, but since you don't
care - why should I?

AV's are unnecessary, was my point. Obviously I care enough that
I've never had virus/spyware, especially considering what I do
with my computer.

-sw

sf said:

Felice Friese said:

"Steve Wertz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

<cut to the tasty part>

Quoted message said:

ObFood: Dinner was a spicy chicken stuffed avocado, deep fried,
and topped with chipotle sauce and cheese.

You keep coming up with ideas like that you may just find yourself back in
my good graces.

He should have stopped at "chicken stuffed", but I'd like to know if
it was a mayonaise based chicken stuffing.

You would, would you?

-sw

Steve Wertz said:

sf said:

Quoted message said:

He should have stopped at "chicken stuffed", but I'd like to know if
it was a mayonaise based chicken stuffing.

You would, would you?

😉 Never mind, my question was answered elsewhere. The idea of deep
fried avocado is still mind boggling - even the next day. Those crazy
Texans.

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:57:49 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I generally do key word killfiles or simply pick "kill this subject".

Me too. I kill nothing in my email and I'd get bored reading the list
if I had any more options than subject and author in my news reader.
Key word kills come when the authors & subjects morph and return.

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.

In article said:

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:57:49 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I generally do key word killfiles or simply pick "kill this subject".

Me too. I kill nothing in my email and I'd get bored reading the list
if I had any more options than subject and author in my news reader.
Key word kills come when the authors & subjects morph and return.

I find "newsgroups" to be helpful in some cases. That's how I got rid
of Chung, who changed subjects and his name quite often, but *always*
crossposted to sci.med.cardiology.

Dan Abel said:

In article said:

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:57:49 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I generally do key word killfiles or simply pick "kill this subject".

Me too. I kill nothing in my email and I'd get bored reading the list
if I had any more options than subject and author in my news reader.
Key word kills come when the authors & subjects morph and return.

I find "newsgroups" to be helpful in some cases. That's how I got rid
of Chung, who changed subjects and his name quite often, but *always*
crossposted to sci.med.cardiology.

I'm not sure if this old version of my newsreader can do that. Just
doing key word kills did the trick for me.

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.

sf said:

Dan Abel said:

In article said:

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:57:49 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>
wrote:

>I generally do key word killfiles or simply pick "kill this subject".

Me too. I kill nothing in my email and I'd get bored reading the list
if I had any more options than subject and author in my news reader.
Key word kills come when the authors & subjects morph and return.

I find "newsgroups" to be helpful in some cases. That's how I got rid
of Chung, who changed subjects and his name quite often, but *always*
crossposted to sci.med.cardiology.

I'm not sure if this old version of my newsreader can do that. Just
doing key word kills did the trick for me.

sf, you might look into newsproxy, which i think can do this. it can
also filter anything cross-posted to more than x number of groups,
which i've found handles chung pretty nicely. it's a program you
launch before launching agent, and it does a pre-screening before
agent's own filters kick in. it can be used with other newsreaders
and o.e., netscape and some other browsers as well.

http://www.nfilter.org/

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:35:25 GMT, blake murphy <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

sf said:

I'm not sure if this old version of my newsreader can do that. Just
doing key word kills did the trick for me.

sf, you might look into newsproxy, which i think can do this. it can
also filter anything cross-posted to more than x number of groups,
which i've found handles chung pretty nicely. it's a program you
launch before launching agent, and it does a pre-screening before
agent's own filters kick in. it can be used with other newsreaders
and o.e., netscape and some other browsers as well.

http://www.nfilter.org/

Thanks! I'll give it a look.

--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.