Re: OT: German kids have a "leg up"... :-)

[Frank Kurz <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/10/2010 8:25 AM, Jim wrote:

>
> Then I guess I'll have to join those who've called you naive.
>
> Almost from the very beginning I've not used nor given any personal
> information about myself in any forum. The worst that's ever happened
> is "someone" submitting my E-mail address to websites that send
> endless spam with no means to unsubscribe. Ultimately easy to take
> care of .... but nevertheless an annoyance. It seems to me that the
> possibility exists that you would provide  personal information and be
> quite safe from any problem. That is, until you come across that one
> vindictive person who, with personal information could simply inundate
> you with all kinds of spam crap and possibly send you viruses, and
> whatever. Also, another tactic is contacting people you know as well
> as employers and providing them with whatever information they think
> will annoy you   ...... be it true or not. Additionally, signing you
> up for receiving mounds of mail at your home or business, from all
> sorts of sources can be accomplished very easily.
>
> Being docile will, of course, reduce the possibility of you being
> subjected to any of this, however, even dicility has it's detractors,
> and there are very few who can remain docile on every subject.
>
> I was thinking that now that Frank has "come out" I would inundate him
> with porn subscriptions but then I realized who I was talking about.
> I'm sure that he already has those subscriptions so I decided it would
> be a lot easier and it would  bother him a lot more if I just picked
> porno sites at random and cancelled his subscriptions.

You can take my gun, my truck, and my beer, but DON'T you dare mess with
my Porn!  :-)

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Frank Kurz
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