That was actually the same thing I thought of. I find it extremely childish that people would do something like that. I remember someone posting something on zonebbs.com, that apparently was immediately taken down, but talked about a lot, that someone pretended was a game, but was a long string of commands that would cause your computer to crash. On Feb 14, 2016, at 11:06 PM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interestingly, the string does not effect my iPhone running the Karen > Australia voice. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 15 Feb 2016, at 13:55, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I became aware of the offensive emails and the deliberate string to shut >> down the Alex screen reader this morning. >> >> At that time, I looked at the email address of the sender and recognized it >> as one that I had just banned, last night, from the V iPhone list, for >> posting offensive language. >> >> For whatever reason, when I attempted to locate her/his address in the >> members list of this group, I could not find it. Yet, the posts continued >> to come to the list. >> >> I was away from my computer for most of the day but, upon returning home >> about an hour or so ago, I managed to locate the user and first, change >> his/her posting privileges and then remove him from the list. >> >> To be quite honest, the account I located was unlike any I've seen in any >> groups. So, it is possible, more messages will come through but I think I >> located the right address. Only time will tell. >> >> Please know that I, on behalf of Cara, am paying close attention and am >> doing all I can to rid the list of such nuisances. >> >> For the record, the malicious string shut down my speech synthesizer, as >> well. Very, very annoying. Like others in this groups, I had to use my >> Windows computer with a non-mac screen reader to discover the source of the >> problem. >> >> Please know that we are in this together and, together, we'll get through >> it. >> >> Mark >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
