Re: Security Emails

From: N. Miller (koko_at_soko.invalid)
Date: 09/18/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:42:53 -0700

In article <04f801c37e2b$7b2c9a40$a401280a@phx.gbl>, jr.boston@rcn.com
says...
> Like Mark, I thought it would be sensible to check the MS
> Newsgroups to see if this message was bogus. Unlike
> Vanguard, I am not a geek who knows everything about
> computers but that doesn't give him the right to be
> downright rude, arrogant, and condescending in dishing out
> his advice. I have experienced this kind of belittling
> reply from other MS Newsgroups in the past. I'll bet you
> were bullied at school weren't you Vanguard ?

It doesn't take a geek to know how to look around when something suspicious
comes along. For some reason, people lose their skepticism when the email
claims to be "from" Microsoft", or even has an address from a common domain
name. I have encountered people, otherwise intelligent, who think that
Yahoo! is a major spam source! A little digging would prove otherwise.

"The T.V.|Radio|Interen says it is so, it must be so." Re-adjust your B.S.
detector and you won't have any problems. 

-- 
Norman
~I'll be there, by your side
~in the land of Twilight.
~In your dream I will go
~'till we find the Sunlight.

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