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- From: partl@hp01.boku.ac.at (Partl)
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.admin.misc
- Subject: !!!!! BOB(c) ALERT !!!!!
- Date: 21 Apr 1995 10:08:17 GMT
- Organization: BOKU Wien, Austria
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- Lately, someone who calls himself "BOB(c)" has started the dubious
- job of "answering" news.newusers.questions with adding follow-ups
- to some "joke" groups (kibology, happynet). Obviously, his aim is
- to make new users aware of one of the dark sides of the not-censored
- Usenet system.
-
- Please, all new users, do not get fooled by practical jokes like this!
-
- Do not believe everything you read on the net. Before you react to a
- posting, ask yourself whether it might have been meant humourous,
- satirical, or sarcastic.
-
- If someone suggest to use the Unix command "rm -rf *", don't do it, it
- would delete all your files.
-
- If someone asks the millions of Usenet members to mail something to a
- certain mail address, don't do it, it would overflow that person's
- computer ("mail bomb").
-
- Do not answer articles that contain alt.test in the followups-to
- header line.
-
- Do not put subjects with a * (wildcard) into your kill file.
-
- Do not believe that you can ftp new files from the host 127.0.0.1,
- which is your own computer.
-
- Do not answer to chain letters (pyramid schemes). Do not believe that
- David Rhodes could make money fast. Do not believe that Criag Shergold
- is still in hospital. Do not use Canter and Siegel's "spamming" method
- of advertising. Enjoy, but do not get confused by the jokes posted by
- Mr. Kibo or Mr. BOB(c).
-
- Never try any practical jokes yourself! Experienced net users know how
- to detect any forgeries and how to make sure that offenders lose their
- computer connections.
-
- Please,
- help to keep the Usenet helpful and useful, and use the net to spread
- knowledge, friendship and peace!
-
-
- --
- Dr. Hubert Partl Mail: partl@mail.boku.ac.at
- EDV-Zentrum, Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur
- Nussdorfer Laende 11 Please correct me if I'm wrong!
- A-1190 Wien, Austria (Europe) Make love, not flame wars. :-)
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