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Sheldon 24-06-2005 04:55 PM

PLEASE
 
DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL WITH A MUNGED ADDRESS... after taking the time to
respond mail was returned, TWICE... both address you supply are munged.
I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!


Sheldon

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DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL WITH A MUNGED ADDRESS... I took the time to reply
and made TWO attmpts to send, both returned... I will no longer open
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notbob 24-06-2005 06:28 PM

On 2005-06-24, Sheldon > wrote:

> I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
> knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!


....and all it takes is a couple munged emails? It the above address
correct?

nb


Vilco 24-06-2005 10:50 PM

Stavo dormendo su un bancale di lambro quando il post di Sheldon mi
desto'

> I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
> knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!
>
> Sheldon


my fav' wannabe-wop :)
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'



Son Volt 25-06-2005 01:26 AM

Sheldon wrote:

> DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL WITH A MUNGED ADDRESS... after taking the time to
> respond mail was returned, TWICE... both address you supply are munged.
> I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
> knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!


So are you gonna keep suffering from chronic wasting-of-money disease?
AOL's content is now, for the most part, free to the public. Yay, I love
the internets!!!!11

http://tinyurl.com/8bn64

~john

Son Volt 25-06-2005 01:28 AM

Son Volt wrote:

> So are you gonna keep suffering from chronic wasting-of-money disease?
> AOL's content is now, for the most part, free to the public. Yay, I love
> the internets!!!!11
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8bn64
>
> ~john


Oh my...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

sf 25-06-2005 05:47 AM

Sorry - try again and omit the capital letters.

sf

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On 24 Jun 2005 08:55:22 -0700, Sheldon wrote:

> DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL WITH A MUNGED ADDRESS... after taking the time to
> respond mail was returned, TWICE... both address you supply are munged.
> I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
> knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!
>
>
> Sheldon
>


> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> >
>



sf 25-06-2005 05:49 AM

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:28:47 -0500, notbob wrote:

> On 2005-06-24, Sheldon > wrote:
>
> > I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
> > knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

>
> ...and all it takes is a couple munged emails? It the above address
> correct?
>

His address most certainly IS correct. I've added a couple of letters
to my email and incorrectly thought it was a fairly well know one that
anyone in the US would figure out.

Sheldon and I are virtual friends... maybe you can't tell at this
point, but we are. He's being ****y because he's annoyed.


Sheldon 25-06-2005 04:09 PM



sf wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:28:47 -0500, notbob wrote:
>
> > On 2005-06-24, Sheldon > wrote:
> >
> > > I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
> > > knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

> >
> > ...and all it takes is a couple munged emails? It the above address
> > correct?
> >

> His address most certainly IS correct. I've added a couple of letters
> to my email and incorrectly thought it was a fairly well know one that
> anyone in the US would figure out.
>
> Sheldon and I are virtual friends... maybe you can't tell at this
> point, but we are. He's being ****y because he's annoyed.


I don't parse email addresses attached to personal email, I simply
assume they're correct. I highlight the missive and hit Respond,
whatever email address comes up in the address box is where my reply
will go when I hit Send. People change email addresses all the time
but typically apprise those they correspond with, so unless i was
previously so apprised I'd have no way to know that the address is
changed and/or munged, by one character or many, I simply would not
know. And I never suspect that personal email addresses from someone
I've been corresponding with perhaps only very occasionally but over
many years, would be munged, I simply would not suspect such a thing.
And people send me forgeries all the time, so after two attempts at
sending my reply to the two different but similar email addresses
contained in the headers that is precisely what I figured, a forgery...
someone getting their jollies from tricking me into writing a lenghty
reply for naught... of course now it's deleted, I don't save email.

I recieved another email from the same address this morning but because
of how it was titled I figured another attempt at getting me to waste
my time and effort with a forgery so I deleted it unopened.

And I especially don't trust emails from anyone who won't sign their
name in the body of the mail... what kinda "friend" is that?!?!? Plus
it's kinda difficult to add addresses to my address book with no name
to slot in... for a while I would make up nick names but it got
confusing with so many "D Cups", "Bazooms", etc.

So, "B", send me your REAL/CORRECT email address, unmunged, so that
when I click Reply the correct valid address automatically appears in
the Send to box. And in the Subj. line place REAL/CORRECT email
address... now I just know I'm going to recieve hundreds of emails with
that subject.

Okay, I just received another email titled "update", I will check it
out shortly... so disregard the above instructions.

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

Sheldon


Son Volt 25-06-2005 05:46 PM

Sheldon wrote:

> I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
> for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
> six a day it's a lot.



No one is dumb enough to leave their personal email address out on
Usenet. You on the other hand had nothing to worry about, at least until
just recently as your posts were not being archived... so no spam for
you. Too many people must have complained, and it takes a lot for Google
to just stop archiving someone's posts without voluntarily adding the
x-no-archive tag. Two years worth of posts down the drain.

I used to use a junk yahoo email until I started getting 100's of
junk/spam emails a day. Since then I make them up and if anyone asks for
it, I'll give it to them in private. You speak of how important it is to
never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb and go
bonkers when someone puts Michael's last name out there for everyone to
see, yet you bitch about people hiding behind fake names and email
addresses. Something, no, you just don't add up...

~john

Damsel 25-06-2005 08:03 PM

Son Volt > said:

> Sheldon wrote:
>
> > I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
> > for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
> > six a day it's a lot.

>
> No one is dumb enough to leave their personal email address out on
> Usenet.


LOTS of people do, and I don't consider any of them stupid.

> You speak of how important it is to
> never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb ...


What's the interweb?

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

sf 25-06-2005 09:02 PM

On 25 Jun 2005 08:09:04 -0700, Sheldon wrote:

> Okay, I just received another email titled "update", I will check it
> out shortly... so disregard the above instructions.
>

Got your return - we're friends again. :)

> I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
> for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
> six a day it's a lot.


The email part of my newsreader is NOT integrated with my email client
on purpose and the email reply function in my newsreader IS munged in
my newsreader for anti-spam & phishing purposes. I can understand
why you had a problem, since you're used to corresponding with me via
my other addresses.

Although my other email addresses are alive, gmail is what I use
currently to filter out cr*p. I check it about once a week for "real"
mail, but the people I correspond with regularly have other addresses
that I check daily and I prefer to keep them as spam free as possible.
Even if spam doesn't enter the inbox, I still have to clear out
"suspect mail" (we're not talking about "known" spam). I just checked
one and have a total of 187 (suspect email tab) since 6/7, which is a
dramatic drop in volume from the days when I had to clean it out every
other day or get messages about my mailbox reaching it's 100MB limit.
BTW: 656 "known spam" messages were caught June 12 - 25.... and that's
only ONE account! I have others. <shudder>

I'm not even as concerned about spam as I am about phishing. I
received a phising message pretending to be from gmail only yesterday
- through one of my non-gmail accounts. I have to call and find out
how that thing made it through the Earthlink gauntlet w/o "knocking"
first!

Caution to gmail account holders… DELETE any message (this was sent to
a non-gmail address) sent to you with this subject line: "Your Gmail
account has been inactive for a long time". It's Phishing for
information.


sf 25-06-2005 09:10 PM

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:03:01 -0500, Damsel wrote:

> Son Volt > said:
>
> > Sheldon wrote:

>
> > You speak of how important it is to
> > never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb ...

>
> What's the interweb?
>

his attempt at levity.. Internet + World Wide Web

I thought it was cute.


sf 25-06-2005 10:14 PM

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:46:46 -0500, Son Volt wrote:

> yet you bitch about people hiding behind fake names and email
> addresses. Something, no, you just don't add up...


It's not a fake address if you dig a little. He was used to
corresponding with me via another address and wasn't familiar enough
with gmail to notice it was munged. End of story. Fini.

Sheldon 25-06-2005 11:10 PM



sf wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> > Okay, I just received another email titled "update", I will check it
> > out shortly... so disregard the above instructions.
> >

> Got your return - we're friends again. :)


Yes we are, blood buddies. :)

> > I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
> > for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
> > six a day it's a lot.

>
> The email part of my newsreader is NOT integrated with my email client
> on purpose and the email reply function in my newsreader IS munged in
> my newsreader for anti-spam & phishing purposes. I can understand
> why you had a problem, since you're used to corresponding with me via
> my other addresses.
>
> Although my other email addresses are alive, gmail is what I use
> currently to filter out cr*p. I check it about once a week for "real"
> mail, but the people I correspond with regularly have other addresses
> that I check daily and I prefer to keep them as spam free as possible.
> Even if spam doesn't enter the inbox, I still have to clear out
> "suspect mail" (we're not talking about "known" spam). I just checked
> one and have a total of 187 (suspect email tab) since 6/7, which is a
> dramatic drop in volume from the days when I had to clean it out every
> other day or get messages about my mailbox reaching it's 100MB limit.
> BTW: 656 "known spam" messages were caught June 12 - 25.... and that's
> only ONE account! I have others. <shudder>
>
> I'm not even as concerned about spam as I am about phishing. I
> received a phising message pretending to be from gmail only yesterday
> - through one of my non-gmail accounts. I have to call and find out
> how that thing made it through the Earthlink gauntlet w/o "knocking"
> first!
>
> Caution to gmail account holders... DELETE any message (this was sent to
> a non-gmail address) sent to you with this subject line: "Your Gmail
> account has been inactive for a long time". It's Phishing for
> information.


That all seems so complicated. I use but one address, and AOL has a
pretty good spam filter. If I receive mail from an address that's not
in my address book it goes into the possible spam folder, I try to
check these for legitimate mail, like those from companys where I
subscribe to their news letters but if someone changes their addie to
something unrecognizable I will more than likely delete it.

Anyway, I don't concern myself with spam or phishers, if it's not
recognizable I will delete it unopened. I really don't get much spam,
I noticed a long time ago if you don't open those they will go away...
and of course if I don't open those I can't click on their embedded
links... even when people I know send attachments, especially
executibles, I don't open the files, I'd rather be safe than regret
missing out on some stupid joke, that very likely I've already seen on
a website. I keep my virus software and firewall up to date and run my
spyware programs everyday... a few dollars spent in protection is worth
thousands, and many, many hours in cures that often never fully
rehabilitate. I know people mean well but opening their forwarded
jokes that have already been re-fowarded to death are one of the best
ways to corrupt PCs.


Sheldon


Damsel 25-06-2005 11:35 PM

"Sheldon" > said:

> I know people mean well but opening their forwarded
> jokes that have already been re-fowarded to death are one of the best
> ways to corrupt PCs.


When I get something that's been forwarded a million times, I don't bother
getting to the core of it, either. What's so hard about copying and
pasting it so the next person doesn't have to open 16 attachments to get to
a 3-line joke?

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

I-zheet M'drurz 25-06-2005 11:43 PM

Damsel spaketh thusly:
> "Sheldon" > said:


>> I know people mean well but opening their forwarded
>> jokes that have already been re-fowarded to death are one of
>> the best ways to corrupt PCs.


Often it's easier than that! It's a simple highlight and cut,
from the message as it exists in your edit screen.

> When I get something that's been forwarded a million times, I
> don't bother getting to the core of it, either. What's so hard
> about copying and pasting it so the next person doesn't have to
> open 16 attachments to get to a 3-line joke?


Not to mention that forwarding things like that passes around the
e-mail addresses of "friends & family" to -other- friends who pass
it along to ??? All of a sudden your e-mail address is in the
hands of somebody you wouldn't know from Adam, and maybe a hundred
others like them. That's scary.

--
_________________________________________
If u are gonna say that I said something,
please say what I REALLY said. ($1 Earl)

Damsel 25-06-2005 11:47 PM

"I-zheet M'drurz" > said:

> Damsel spaketh thusly:
>
> > When I get something that's been forwarded a million times, I
> > don't bother getting to the core of it, either. What's so hard
> > about copying and pasting it so the next person doesn't have to
> > open 16 attachments to get to a 3-line joke?

>
> Not to mention that forwarding things like that passes around the
> e-mail addresses of "friends & family" to -other- friends who pass
> it along to ??? All of a sudden your e-mail address is in the
> hands of somebody you wouldn't know from Adam, and maybe a hundred
> others like them. That's scary.


Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece, for that
very reason.

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

The Ranger 26-06-2005 03:56 PM

Damsel > wrote in message
...
> > Not to mention that forwarding things like that passes
> > around the e-mail addresses of "friends & family" to
> > -other- friends who pass it along to ??? All of a
> > sudden your e-mail address is in the hands of somebody
> > you wouldn't know from Adam, and maybe a hundred
> > others like them. That's scary.


I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back in 1991 with
enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL forwarders) to essentially
make it [a plain text email] rival a full-fledged PowerPoint
presentation. <G>

> Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece,
> for that very reason.


What is it with some family members that do this? (One "collects"
addresses to add to his private joke alias.)

The Ranger



Damsel 26-06-2005 04:27 PM

"The Ranger" > said:

> Damsel > wrote in message
> ...
>
> I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back in 1991 with
> enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL forwarders) to essentially
> make it [a plain text email] rival a full-fledged PowerPoint
> presentation. <G>
>
> > Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece,
> > for that very reason.

>
> What is it with some family members that do this? (One "collects"
> addresses to add to his private joke alias.)


I hate that! I've had people I've never heard of sending me jokes in my
private accounts. They're usually pretty good about removing my name from
their address book, though.

I wonder if your relative knows how unappreciated that is.

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

sf 26-06-2005 05:39 PM

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:56:11 -0700, The Ranger wrote:

> What is it with some family members that do this? (One "collects"
> addresses to add to his private joke alias.)


It's the college crowd who actually WANT to see those headers... so
they can see how far the joke has gone (they like to see them circle
the globe) OR people who still haven't figured out how to strip the
headers and attribution carats.

Son Volt 26-06-2005 08:35 PM

Damsel wrote:

> What's the interweb?



Same thing as the stupidmarket... and the internets.

~john

Damsel 26-06-2005 08:49 PM

Son Volt > said:

> Damsel wrote:
>
> > What's the interweb?

>
> Same thing as the stupidmarket... and the internets.


*grin*

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

rosie read n' post 26-06-2005 11:11 PM

Soooo... Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us
without writing a word, maybe this could explain: When you are very
busy,
but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do? You forward jokes.
When
you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward
jokes.
When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know how,
you
forward jokes. And to let you know that you are still remembered, you
are
still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess
what
you get? A forwarded joke. So my friends, next time if you get a joke,
don't
think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've
been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer
wanted to send you a smile.

(not an original post......................it was sent to me, that last
time i complained about the damn jokes in my mailbox)

--




"Damsel" > wrote in message
...
> "The Ranger" > said:
>
> > Damsel > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> > I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back in 1991

with
> > enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL forwarders) to essentially
> > make it [a plain text email] rival a full-fledged PowerPoint
> > presentation. <G>
> >
> > > Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece,
> > > for that very reason.

> >
> > What is it with some family members that do this? (One "collects"
> > addresses to add to his private joke alias.)

>
> I hate that! I've had people I've never heard of sending me jokes in

my
> private accounts. They're usually pretty good about removing my name

from
> their address book, though.
>
> I wonder if your relative knows how unappreciated that is.
>
> Carol
>
> --
> Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon




Sheldon 27-06-2005 01:09 AM



rosie read n' post wrote:
> Soooo... Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us
> without writing a word, maybe this could explain: When you are very
> busy,
> but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do? You forward jokes.
> When
> you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward
> jokes.
> When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know how,
> you
> forward jokes. And to let you know that you are still remembered, you
> are
> still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess
> what
> you get? A forwarded joke. So my friends, next time if you get a joke,
> don't
> think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've
> been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer
> wanted to send you a smile.


Yeah, right... a joke fowarded to you along with 50 other people...
people mass mail jokes because THEY need to be remembered, NOT because
they care about you.

Sheldon


The Ranger 27-06-2005 05:08 AM

Damsel > wrote in message
...
> "The Ranger" > said:
> > Damsel > wrote in message

...

> > I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back
> > in 1991 with enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL
> > forwarders) to essentially make it [a plain text email] rival
> > a full-fledged PowerPoint presentation. <G>
> >
> > > Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my
> > > niece, for that very reason.

> >
> > What is it with some family members that do this? (One
> > "collects" addresses to add to his private joke alias.)

>
> I hate that! I've had people I've never heard of sending me
> jokes in my private accounts. They're usually pretty good
> about removing my name from their address book, though.
>
> I wonder if your relative knows how unappreciated that is.


In my case, those that continue to do this haven't a clue regarding
forwarding, stripping headers, or even what "bcc" is for!

The Ranger



The Ranger 27-06-2005 05:17 AM

rosie read n' post > wrote in message
...
> When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep
> contact, you forward jokes.


"Best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove
all doubt."

> When you have something to say, but don't know what,
> and don't know how, you forward jokes.


Nonsense. I keep in contact with everyone in my address book monthly,
sometimes more frequently. If using email for communication is SOOOOO
difficult, then pick up the damned phone, or visit the person.
Otherwise, keep the unfunny, nonhumorous, often past-chestnut-staged
jokes to yourself. (Especially when you aren't willing to perform even
the most minimum editing to clean them up for readiblity.)

> And to let you know that you are still remembered, you
> are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared
> for, guess what you get? A forwarded joke.
> So my friends, next time if you get a joke, don't think that
> you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that
> you've been thought of today and your friend on the other
> end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.


Me, and the other 100 people in their address book? I can do without
that type of unsentimental bogy.

> (not an original post... it was sent to me, that last time
> i complained about the damn jokes in my mailbox)


I'd've help them understand the folly of sending canned tripe that's
past it use-by date...

The Ranger



The Ranger 27-06-2005 05:17 AM

sf > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:56:11 -0700, The Ranger wrote:
> > What is it with some family members that do this?
> > (One "collects" addresses to add to his private joke alias.)


> [..] OR people who still haven't figured out how to strip
> the headers and attribution carats.


Bingo.

The Ranger



Damsel 27-06-2005 05:23 AM

"The Ranger" > said:

> Damsel > wrote in message
> ...
> > "The Ranger" > said:

>
> > > I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back
> > > in 1991 with enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL
> > > forwarders) to essentially make it [a plain text email] rival
> > > a full-fledged PowerPoint presentation. <G>


You mean you got one back with your name as the original sender???

> > > What is it with some family members that do this? (One
> > > "collects" addresses to add to his private joke alias.)

> >
> > I hate that! I've had people I've never heard of sending me
> > jokes in my private accounts. They're usually pretty good
> > about removing my name from their address book, though.
> >
> > I wonder if your relative knows how unappreciated that is.

>
> In my case, those that continue to do this haven't a clue regarding
> forwarding, stripping headers, or even what "bcc" is for!


Holy cats ... maybe people should be required to pass competency tests
prior to being issued an internet account. ;)

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel 27-06-2005 05:27 AM

"The Ranger" > said:

> I'd've


Hey, I like that word! I say it all the time, but have never seen it in
print before! :)

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

The Ranger 27-06-2005 07:30 AM

Damsel > wrote in message
...
> "The Ranger" > said:
> > Damsel > wrote in message

...
> > > "The Ranger" > said:
> > > > I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back
> > > > in 1991 with enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL
> > > > forwarders) to essentially make it [a plain text email] rival
> > > > a full-fledged PowerPoint presentation. <G>


> You mean you got one back with your name as the original
> sender???


Yes indeed. I send one copy myself and bcc'd three friends (with similar
warped senses of humor). One of those friends was using aol at the time.
She sent it off to a few people and so on and so on... In 1998, I
received it from one of my cousins (unaware of who "The Ranger" was). It
was a Rod Serling moment.

The Ranger



Damsel 27-06-2005 07:35 AM

"The Ranger" > said:

> Damsel wrote...
>
> > > > "The Ranger" said:
> > > > > I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back
> > > > > in 1991 with enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL
> > > > > forwarders) to essentially make it [a plain text email] rival
> > > > > a full-fledged PowerPoint presentation. <G>

>
> > You mean you got one back with your name as the original
> > sender???

>
> Yes indeed. I send one copy myself and bcc'd three friends (with similar
> warped senses of humor). One of those friends was using aol at the time.
> She sent it off to a few people and so on and so on... In 1998, I
> received it from one of my cousins (unaware of who "The Ranger" was). It
> was a Rod Serling moment.


How many times does *that* happen in a lifetime?!? Do you still have the
joke? I'm fully warped.

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

sarah bennett 27-06-2005 10:47 AM

The Ranger wrote:
> Damsel > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>"The Ranger" > said:
>>
>>>Damsel > wrote in message

>
> ...
>
>>>>"The Ranger" > said:
>>>>
>>>>>I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back
>>>>>in 1991 with enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL
>>>>>forwarders) to essentially make it [a plain text email] rival
>>>>>a full-fledged PowerPoint presentation. <G>

>
>
>>You mean you got one back with your name as the original
>>sender???

>
>
> Yes indeed. I send one copy myself and bcc'd three friends (with similar
> warped senses of humor). One of those friends was using aol at the time.
> She sent it off to a few people and so on and so on... In 1998, I
> received it from one of my cousins (unaware of who "The Ranger" was). It
> was a Rod Serling moment.
>
> The Ranger
>
>


this sounds like the beginning of an internet urban legend :)


--

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Melba's Jammin' 27-06-2005 01:32 PM

In article >,
wrote:
> Holy cats ... maybe people should be required to pass competency tests
> prior to being issued an internet account. ;)
>
> Carol


There'd be no one posting here.
--
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from Notable Women's Dinner at the Governor's Residence.

The Ranger 27-06-2005 03:30 PM

Damsel > wrote in message
...
> Do you still have the joke? I'm fully warped.


Yep; gotta find it on one of the floppies. It might be a while but I'll
send it to you.

The Ranger



sf 28-06-2005 04:59 PM

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:32:39 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >,
> wrote:
> > Holy cats ... maybe people should be required to pass competency tests
> > prior to being issued an internet account. ;)
> >
> > Carol

>
> There'd be no one posting here.


Hey! I "resemble" that remark.

sf 28-06-2005 05:04 PM

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:11:41 GMT, rosie read n' post wrote:

> A forwarded joke. So my friends, next time if you get a joke,
> don't think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke,
> but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the
> other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.


I appreciate a good joke and don't care if there's a personal message
attached or not. What I don't appreciate is one that still has all
the "garbage" on it. I especially don't like any of the ones that
want it sent back to the sender. Talk about smarmy... that's it!

Maverick 08-07-2005 04:59 AM

"Sheldon" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
>
> sf wrote:
>> Sheldon wrote:

<<snip all the goofy stuff>>

> That all seems so complicated. I use but one address, and AOL has a
> pretty good spam filter. If I receive mail from an address that's not
> in my address book it goes into the possible spam folder, I try to
> check these for legitimate mail, like those from companys where I
> subscribe to their news letters but if someone changes their addie to
> something unrecognizable I will more than likely delete it.


<<snip more goofy stuff>>

I get it now! Your are an AOL'er! Yer just one step up from the WEBTV
people!

Sheldon, take your anti-teurets meds, please before you post any more!

> Sheldon



Bret



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