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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:47:52 -0600
From: "\"Reb\" Ruster" <rebruster@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.chakotay
Subject: Re: Home Mechanic's Guide Vol I001 file - Home Mechanic's Guide Vol I.rar.001 (0/2)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:47:00 -0500
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On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:48:05 GMT, Querious <SeriousQueer@dick.head>
wrote:
>rruster@rebulon.net ("Reb" Ruster) wrote in
>news:Hfydnf3LGOVW-I3UnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@giganews.com:
>
>>
>> As someone once said, "It's time to put up or shut up!" This is the
>> way to post files. RAR them with a name other than their real
>> filename. No passwords, no game, no Jimmys.
>>
>
>It's not really that clever. The only reson for pw protecting files is to
>stop a casual browser from opening them. He or she will download a few
>parts, find they are pw protected and give up.
>The problem with your post is that someone actually searching for a Home
>Mechanics Guide in something like EN Global Search may come across your
>post, download it and get the sort of surprise which results in an abuse
>report. Better, surely, to use a header which is simply a random set of
>numbers; something which is highly unlikely to be a search target.
Thanks for the suggestion. That's a distinct possiblity.
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