Vic,
You must stop shooting from the hip (off the wall) and hitting those tender
spots.......!!!!!!!! :-)
Lars,
Lighten up the man is in his dotage, besides I have a preference for
Gorgonzola and an open forum.
Apropos quote:
"There's no need to hang around waiting for the Last Judgement - it takes
place every day."
-Albert Camus
Duane
>I generally enjoy the slightly off-the-wall comments of Victor
>"Limburger" Boersma. If he were not so generally stimulating, he
>would be a major annoyance because two thirds of his posts are either
>off-topic or more properly addressed to individuals than to the list.
>But then the last third of them are so right-on, and half the marginal
>ones are either really funny or thought-provoking.
>
>In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] (Victor Boersma) writes:
>>I for one, refuse to visit WEB sites except under duress. I don't have
>>time to wait for pictures to develop that I don't need to see ...
>
>So uncheck the "load images" item in the browser preferences.
>That's exactly why it's there.
>
>>But than, when I get one of these automated answer machines I always
>>select the human operator option, not because I need it, but because
>>I want to make sure that anybody who subjects me to that indignity
>>will either not get any of my business or at the highest possible
>>cost to them.
>
>Personally, I'd much rather search a company's web site than spend
>the same time on hold being passed around from one idiot to another
>who don't understand my question, until they finally decide to
>write the question down and hand it to someone "who will call me back
>real soon now". I recently spent 6 weeks trying to find out why
>a certain brand of ISDN terminal adapter always disconnected
>from our remote access server immediately after being authorized.
>
>>I am working on a system that will automatically detect automated eMail
>>messages, so I can automatically answer the automated message and thus
>>overload the system with irrelevant nonsense between machines.
>
>Do you consider the TREG mailing list a source of automated messages ?
>
>I share your sentiments, but the problem of junk e-mail is a social
>problem, not a technical problem. Social problems need social solutions,
>just as technical problems need technical solutions.
>
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