>From Bash.org quotes from IRC <xterm> The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
--mat On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:41, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > You guys are really under estimating the stupidity of lots of email users. > > Trust has nothing to do with it! You get an attachment, you open it. > > Period. We've had users mailing postmaster asking why the mailserver > > stripped this attachment, and wanting us to send another copy so they can > > open it. I'd love to reply and say 'Your email account has been revoked > > because you're a moron.' > > > > I don't think the email user base is growing that drastically anymore. > > It has to be the same people that keep opening these virii... Will they > > never learn? Is there any hope for mankind? > > That reminds me of a joke I heard somewhere. The basic idea was this: The > warning labels on most products are meant to protect stupid people (e.g., > "don't use this electrical device in the shower"). The idea was to remove > all of the warning labels for a generation so that what was left were only > the smart people. > > That still cracks me up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
