On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:31:07AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > The advantage of eg Yahoo groups (and presumably blogs) > is their moderation; the lack thereof enabled spammers to > bulldoze the commons of usenet. Inevitable.
I've been hearing about blog-spamming lately, and I've seen spammers attack web boards as well. Spammers are also using worms to get control of victim's machines and sending their spam from there. > >Kids these days don't know how to use shell shortcuts either. > > Not sure what you mean by that. "Shortcut" is a M$ term > for lame-ass sym link. Sorry, I was in a hurry. History substition is what I meant... i.e. % ericm > mkdir /home/cpun % ericm > ^pun^punk % ericm > cd !$ etc. or any of the hundreds of other history substitution commands. No one I work with knows any of them; they all either laboriously re-type or use the command-line editor even when it requires many more keystrokes. I try to restrain myself from barking out "bang dollar! bang dollar dammit!" but sometimes I can't help it. Eric