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From: Mephistopheles <nobody@nowhere.net>
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Subject: Re: Ping: Ronin -- I miss the great puzzles!
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:50:15 +0100
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:58:00 -0400, 4s00th <4s00th@hushmail.com>
wrote:
>I was actually able to locate a slightly older version of the program,
>and am currently going through some of the included puzzles. I plan to
>make some of my own for this group. AND I MISS YOURS!
>
>I don't care what a few over-cautious idiots say -- I think you are a
>reliable source. That's not to say I don't check your stuff with my AV
>software -- that's basic. But there are ways of dealing with possible
>threats! Antivirus software, anti-malware software, running programs
>in sandboxes, etc.
Just rwo comments on your snipped post.
As to the header to Ronin, he posted a jiggy today, which I've just
finished, over in the quiet place where I hang out. You'll enjoy it.
Your second paragraph is, knowing you, not quite what you meant.
The person who posted a general warning about exe files was cosmos, a
long-time Fort veteran, a very generous poster of binaries (ain't many
left here!!!!!!), a very knowledgeable person computer-wise & a very
caring individual... so it's a bit much labelling him "an
over-cautious idiot". I trust you'll agree with me.
And yes, we have had very many exe files before. Waterdance's
slideshows, & several by Clogghopper, Obelix & B-W among others.
Nonetheless, a salutary warning about their well-documented dangers is
surely something that newcomers might well profit from.
Mephi
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