__/ [Els] on Thursday 17 November 2005 11:33 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [Els] on Thursday 17 November 2005 09:13 \__
>>
>>> Dylan Parry wrote:
>>>
>>>> As if the love poetry wasn't enough, Brian Wakem just had to say:
>>>>
>>>>> As more people are turning to alternative browsers now it may be of
>>>>> help for you to know this. I have enclosed a screen capture of the
>>>>> problem so your team can get it fixed if you deem it an issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Heh! This paragraph would have made me giggle. I'd be *very* surprised
>>>> if someone found errors in Mozilla or Opera, but not at all if it were
>>>> IE causing them!
>>>>
>>>> The sentence "As more people are turning to alternative browsers" in
>>>> particular would have made me say something like "People? You mean folk
>>>> like me, who test *first* in such environments?"
>>>>
>>>>> As more people are turning to alternative browsers now it may be of
>>>>> help for you to know this. I have enclosed a screen capture of the
>>>>> problem so your team can get it fixed if you deem it an issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached is a zip file which contains a file called so.scr
>>>
>>> I think the writer of these emails is just targeting /all/ webmasters,
>>> cause it's too difficult to determine quickly which are clueless and
>>> which aren't :-)
>>
>> Exactly. It's a brute-force approach and I bet that many still fall for
>> it, perhaps 10+ out of 10,000,000.
>
> I think you're optimistic - I think loads will open the attachment, a
> fair amount will open the zip, and I'm afraid the extension .scr
> doesn't scare off enough people.
That's why I add a plus. I wanted to 'play safe' and not say 1,000 or 10,000.
*smile*
>>> Note to self: make sure my Dad doesn't put his e-mail address in plain
>>> sight on his brand new hobby site. ;-)
>>
>> Interesting point. I put my parents behind a BoxTrapper because of
>> malignant exectubale spam. Sadly, many amateurs out there don't understand
>> what it means to reply to a verification E-mail, leaving the subject line
>> in tact.
>
> Is that what it's called, a BoxTrapper? I hate those. When I send
> someone an email before leaving the house, I don't want to come back
> hours (or days) later to find the email never got through because I
> have to respond to some reply first.
I know how annoying that can be which is why...
>> Eventually, my parents get E-mails at the end of the month when I check
>> the BoxTrapper moderation queue. All in all, they are better off.
>
> Your parents don't mind receiving mail a month late? My Dad sure
> would!
..I modify the whitelists in advance to prevent a challenge whenever possible
and irritate the least... my parent included although they would not get
furious. If I disbled BoxTrapper, then I imagine 80% of the mail would be
spam.
Roy
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