Re: [ALUG] On-Line for FREE (NOT SPAM!)
* List: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk James Green <jmkgre@essex.ac.uk> writes:
Now ask 4 friends to join, and give them your referral ID. Your account does not become activated until all four referrals are members.
For the second time today: DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS! This is a pyramid email collection scam. Their site is poorly designed in a GUI tool and is hosted in the US (odd for a UK internet provider, don't you think?). A conservative estimate of the revenue that they need to generate to service the amount of 0800 calls they need is around the £200,000 mark, which is never going to be generated by 2 email adverts per week. See uk.telecom for more details and a *very* long thread about them, even by uk.telecom standards. Save your time and stop wasting bandwidth by telling others. Please tell whoever you heard it from about this and ask them to pass it on to all the others that they've told and who they heard it from. God, these hoaxes take a lot to stamp out. :( -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Improves CPU/video memory bandwidth by anything from 20 to 50%. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
* List: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk On 19 May 1999, Mark J Ray wrote:
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James Green <jmkgre@essex.ac.uk> writes:
Now ask 4 friends to join, and give them your referral ID. Your account does not become activated until all four referrals are members.
For the second time today:
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS!
Hehe. I did so anonymously through a proxy server. They don't know who I am :-)
This is a pyramid email collection scam. Their site is poorly designed in a GUI tool
I've seen plenty of comercial sites designed in MS FP. None of them have attracted my interest on a technical or visual basis - the code has been crap quite frankly.
and is hosted in the US (odd for a UK internet provider, don't you think?).
Nope. Half our film industry is prolly funded by the US.
A conservative estimate of the revenue that they need to generate to service the amount of 0800 calls they need is around the 200,000 mark, which is never going to be generated by 2 email adverts per week. See uk.telecom for more details and a *very* long thread about them, even by uk.telecom standards.
I haven't had any access to news since installing RH6, due to almost nothing wanting to compile. Even Leafnode. I'll have to grab an RPM of it - I've missed posting the 56k FAQ to demon.tech.modems twice now :(
Save your time and stop wasting bandwidth by telling others. Please tell whoever you heard it from about this and ask them to pass it on to all the others that they've told and who they heard it from.
Will do.
God, these hoaxes take a lot to stamp out. :(
Sure, but one had to try this one, anonymously of course... James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
* List: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk James Green wrote:
Hehe. I did so anonymously through a proxy server. They don't know who I am :-)
off topic..... We found a neat "feature" with java applets and proxies... you can get the machines OS and memory and IP address from a machine behind a proxy by asking the applet to get the information from the local machine on which it has been downloaded and then sending it to the web server ;).... so are you safe from behind a proxy ?? well sortof ;) Sz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Newman Tel: Mobile 07970 673722 Department of Electronics Systems Engineering Work 01206 873708 University of Essex Fax: Work 01206 872900 http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/index.html email: njnewm@essex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
* List: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk On 20-May-99 Neill Newman wrote:
* List: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk
James Green wrote:
Hehe. I did so anonymously through a proxy server. They don't know who I am :-)
off topic.....
We found a neat "feature" with java applets and proxies... you can get the machines OS and memory and IP address from a machine behind a proxy by asking the applet to get the information from the local machine on which it has been downloaded and then sending it to the web server ;)....
so are you safe from behind a proxy ?? well sortof ;)
But if packets are being filtered by a firewall, you probably can do nothing whatsoever with that IP address. IN addition, if it is a private IP number, then routers along the way will just discard any packets you try to send it. ---------------------------------- You beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you will, There's no-one at home -- Alexander Pope Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph@panache.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
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