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From: 4s00th <4s00th@hushmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ping: Ronin -- I miss the great puzzles!
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:25:22 -0400
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:50:15 +0100, Mephistopheles
<nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:
>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.
All right, smack my hand, I have the manners of a badgered wolverine
in a desert. And I seem to be pissed off more than usual lately. But
you're right, I did not mean to call C an idiot -- and I owe him an
apology for doing so. I do hold with the "over-cautious" stuff,
though.
>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.
And certainly we must wary of post-forgers. And the idiots that are
currently fowling up Usenet with tons of little idiotic viruses, both
as .exe files and as .rar files. Still, I've never seen any of those
post par repair files for their efforts!
I'm sorry -- I really did wait a while before writing this so that I
would understand that C was not really attacking Ronin, but I guess I
just put the anger away for a while and then brought it back out again
when I wasn't looking. I guess one of the bad things about living like
a hermit is forgetting your manners. Ah, who am I kidding? I was never
really fit for polite company.
-- 4s00th@hushmail.com
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