Posted by Smarty on 01/10/06 19:48

Specs,

On the PC, I own and use 6 NLEs because each offers special advantages and
does certain things particularly well. It also allows me to intelligently
compare and critique them and form opinions based on actual use. Four of the
six cost below another $100 apiece.

If you think this is a sign of immaturity or inexperience, I can only reply
as another (to borrow your exact phrase) "straight talker which is
refreshing in this age of internet bullshitters" that you are either
immature, inexperienced, or both.

Smarty


"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:lpadna9eqZoHlVneRVn-uw@adelphia.com...
> Specs,
>
> I haven't been 14 years old in over 50 years, so your assessment of my
> immaturity and inexperience is entirely wrong. I started using newsgroups
> in the early 1980s and have been with Arpanet and Usenet since the start.
> In fact, I ran an amateur teletype station doing newsgroup communication
> starting in the early 60's, so I bristle at your insinuation that there is
> some naive or inexperienced notion here.
>
> If you are trying to convince me that somebody is mining this or other
> newsgroup manually and decoding / reading each email to render email
> addresses useless or to take an email address to achieve identity theft,
> then I would reply that you as well as Nappy are way beyond reasonable
> precautions for identity theft. I would spend a lot more effort worrying
> about credit cards, drivers license, social security information, medical
> information, and a thousand other things before I would deliberately avoid
> sending a manually encoded email address to someone who has offered to
> help me convert an HDV file I could not process.
>
> And by the way, since you are so generous in offering an
> opinion.......could you please suggest a way that the original poster
> could send me his HDV file. I find it very revealing that the critics like
> you and the "straight talker" like Nappy have absolutely nothing to offer
> as an alternative approach. You seem to ready to complain and challenge,
> but I have yet to see an offer to help the original poster or suggest a
> way to get his problem solved.
>
> Smarty
>
>
> "Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
> news:43c39956$0$2674$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>>
>>> I am totally offended by Nappy who offers no constructive suggestion,
>>> essentially criticizes my attempt to help others, and provides a totally
>>> specious claim which is both untrue and highly exaggerated.
>>>
>>> Smarty
>>>
>>>
>> Get over yourself.
>>
>> Nappy is a straight talker which is refreshing in this age of internet
>> bullshitter. Last message from him to you I read he was actually trying
>> to
>> do you a huge favour. You seem to be too stupid to realise. But hey,
>> you're the 14 yr old with the 5 NLEs so what do I know....
>>
>> The robot email collectors that regularly sweep the newsgroups are only
>> half
>> the problem. A personal email address can be rendered useless by someone
>> who is pissed off and has half an hour of free time. The internet is the
>> playground of assholes and the malicious too and you will find out the
>> hard
>> way that not everyone plays by the rules of common decency.
>>
>> Identity theft should be taken far more seriously and your email address
>> is
>> just one more part of one's identity that should be looked after.
>>
>>
>
>

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