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A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-08-12 15:45]: >> A. Pagaltzis wrote: >>> * Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-08-12 00:15]: And to keep on the subject of hate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack >>> Of course this isn't new, even though IDN exponentially >>> exp

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* Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-08-12 15:45]: > A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-08-12 00:15]: > >> And to keep on the subject of hate: > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack > > > > Of course this isn't new, even though IDN exponentially > > expanded the scope of

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A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-08-12 00:15]: >> And to keep on the subject of hate: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack > > Of course this isn't new, even though IDN exponentially expanded > the scope of the problem. > > See also http://rnicrosoft.com/ Doesn

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* Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-08-12 00:15]: > And to keep on the subject of hate: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack Of course this isn't new, even though IDN exponentially expanded the scope of the problem. See also http://rnicrosoft.com/ Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

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Michael G Schwern wrote: > Peter da Silva wrote: >>> I knew a "Michael Smith" in high school. I guess he's fucked then. >> He could change his name to something unique like "Sting", "Prince", or >> "Megabyte", while he's changing his name anyway. > > Or ♧ or ☃ or ℜ or ➊! Oh god, Unicode email ad

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Peter da Silva wrote: >> I knew a "Michael Smith" in high school. I guess he's fucked then. > > He could change his name to something unique like "Sting", "Prince", or > "Megabyte", while he's changing his name anyway. Or ♧ or ☃ or ℜ or ➊! Oh god, Unicode email addresses!

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On 11/08/07, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > Or maybe "Ingy döt Net". :-) Yeah, and I bet the list archives will fuck with his name too. Hate! -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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* Peter da Silva [2007-08-11 06:55]: > >I knew a "Michael Smith" in high school. I guess he's fucked > >then. > > He could change his name to something unique like "Sting", > "Prince", or "Megabyte", while he's changing his name anyway. Or maybe "Ingy döt Net". :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Paga

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I knew a "Michael Smith" in high school. I guess he's fucked then. He could change his name to something unique like "Sting", "Prince", or "Megabyte", while he's changing his name anyway.

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Abigail wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:56:32AM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: >> A. Pagaltzis wrote: >>> Dots in email addresses are soo unusual! People who use >>> them deserve to have their threads inaccessible by anyone else! >>> >>> And you know what? It???s not the one with a dot in

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Abigail wrote: Just change your name to just 'Yossi'. Great idea! I must do it fast though, before the other 3 people working with me and having the same first name hear about it. Maybe I'll use a static IP address instead, that should avoid these nasty collision problems... except it doesn

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:56:32AM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > > >Dots in email addresses are soo unusual! People who use > >them deserve to have their threads inaccessible by anyone else! > > > >And you know what? It???s not the one with a dot in his email > >addr

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* Peter da Silva [2007-08-07 12:50]: > Smart-arse literalism is no defense. Congratulations for having read my mail! (Specifically the part where I said I wasn't going to get into that topic.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:05:48PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis said: > Every single weblog where I've ever left a comment used internal > anchors to make comments linkable individually. That makes the > hates-software permalink pages *the worst* of any blog engine I > have ever seen. If you send me a list

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On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:33, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Peter da Silva [2007-08-07 03:30]: smart-arse quotes There is no such thing as a smart quote. There is only smart quoting. Smart-arse quoting deserves no defense. Smart-arse literalism is no defense.

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A. Pagaltzis wrote: Dots in email addresses are soo unusual! People who use them deserve to have their threads inaccessible by anyone else! And you know what? It’s not the one with a dot in his email address who suffered the problem, it’s me who wanted to look up one of his threads.

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* Peter da Silva [2007-08-07 03:30]: > smart-arse quotes There is no such thing as a smart quote. There is only smart quoting. There are also curly quotes. The former is a feature in some software for easier typing of the latter. As for the rest of the reply, I have been completely done with tha

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On 06-Aug-2007, at 19:17, A. Pagaltzis wrote: Yeah, they couldn’t be bothered to bung in another character; I hate that, but I’m just kind repressing it most of the time. The hateful thing about smart-arse quotes is ... no, they're pure hate, all the way through. You can not defend them.

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* Phil Pennock [2007-08-07 01:40]: > I’ll see you your “RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK” and raise you > one “APOSTROPHE”. > > It’s “Apple’s”, not “Apple’s”. > > Proper punctuation, my arse. Yeah, they couldn’t be bothered to bung in another character; I hate that, but I’m just kind repressing it m

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On 2007-08-06 at 18:57 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > Rght. Any mail with non-US-ASCII characters is sent with some > sort of encoding (unless the MUA is broken). F.ex., if I want to > hate on Apple’s Exposé, my mail is automatically something other > than literal 7-bit text. > Fine. This mail i

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Ann Barcomb [2007-08-06 18:55]: Well, I'm still waiting for my new posts, which are under 'Ann' to get moved under my nick of choice, 'Kudra' (which is how my old posts are accessed), which is something I requested right after we were informed that thi

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* Ann Barcomb [2007-08-06 18:55]: > Well, I'm still waiting for my new posts, which are under 'Ann' > to get moved under my nick of choice, 'Kudra' (which is how my > old posts are accessed), which is something I requested right > after we were informed that this information had been lost. I can'

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* Robin Stephenson [2007-08-06 18:40]: > If people insist on tickling it where it is clealy broken, eg > sending quoted-printable messages, Rght. Any mail with non-US-ASCII characters is sent with some sort of encoding (unless the MUA is broken). F.ex., if I want to hate on Apple’s Exposé, my

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On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, A. Pagaltzis wrote: So, each poster's thread gets archived under a host named for their email address. There is no way whatsoever to link to individual posts on these pages; only entire threads get an address. Just great!! Who needs links anyway -- this web thingamajig is sil

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Am I alone in thinking that the "hates-software" web page should stay just as broken as it is? If people insist on tickling it where it is clealy broken, eg sending quoted-printable messages, having characters in their email addresses that make it choke, whatever, then guess what? It will brea

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* Richard Clamp [2007-08-06 12:55]: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 04:27:50AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > So, each poster's thread gets archived under a host named for > > their email address. There is no way whatsoever to link to > > individual posts on these pages; only entire threads get an > > a

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 04:27:50AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > So, each poster's thread gets archived under a host named for > their email address. There is no way whatsoever to link to > individual posts on these pages; only entire threads get an > address. Just great!! Who needs links anyway --

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So, each poster's thread gets archived under a host named for their email address. There is no way whatsoever to link to individual posts on these pages; only entire threads get an address. Just great!! Who needs links anyway -- this web thingamajig is silly anyway! Whatever, I was trying to look