Re: printer icon
Antony Gelberg wrote:
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:36:39PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:38:29 +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
Don't feed the trolls. That's the second one today!
What, are you like the list police or something?
No. We all are. I am trying to give useful advice. Please don't take it
so personally.
A
I have to go with Antony on this one; we're all "list police". Antony's
just trying to encourage us to ignore messages that aren't legitimate,
of which this one "seems" to be one.
There have been a lot of these type messages come through in the past
few months; messages that almost sound legit, but have a "stink" about
them. I strongly suspect there must be some new virus/spambot that's
generating these type messages. Here are some examples from the November
archives (and the first page of December's - I got tired of looking them
up), all of which "feel" like spam:
Case Study 1:
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Subject Line:
Soundcard problem
Body:
i have a old motherboard msi don't know the model number!
it has an on-board soundcard is there anyway to find out which soundcard
drivers i need?
thanx
dean
Comments: A very generic subject line, along with generic information,
phrased more like what you'd hear on a Windows list than a Linux list.
Case Study 2:
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Subject Line:
Re: printer icon
Body:
i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do?
Comments: This doesn't even make sense.
Case Study 3:
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Subject Line:
[no subject]
Body:
I HAVE A MOTHERBOARD VIA AC97 WITH SOUND CARD SIS 300/305 &INEED
IDENTIFICATON FOR THEM
Comments: No subject line. Body in CAPs; and what does it mean to "need
identification" for these parts?
Case Study 4:
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Subject Line:
[no subject]
Body:
my soundcard is not set up to my computer
Comments: No subject line, no punctuation, no details, no question.
Case Study 5:
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Subject Line:
I have xp 2000-and aol as my carrier-
Body:
My cd movies I can't hear,my you've got mail,no longer
works-goodbye-when logging off--What is the problem?????
Comments: What do you think?
Case Study 6:
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Subject Line:
Question
Body:
Hi
I have some cds that I burned with windows NT long ago, today my windows
plataform is W2000 but I have a problem because information cant be read
with W200.
Is there any aplycatiion that allows me to read ir?
Comments: Seeing a pattern here?
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Kent
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