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<H4>"The Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
Starshine Technical Services,
<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>The Presumption!</H3>
<p><strong>(Claiming to be) From Microsoft Internet Explorer Support on Sat, 06 Feb 1999
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Microsoft Corporation
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
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Dear Sir/Madam
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As an user of the Microsoft Internet
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^^^^
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--- some MS Word spell-checker or "Wizard"
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suggested this? In the literate world
we use "a user --- since the term "user"
is pronounced with a leading consonant
sound "y" as in "yoozer"
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I'm not a "yoozer" of Microsoft Internet Explorer
or any other MS product.
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Explorer, Microsoft Corporation provides
you with this upgrade for your web browser.
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You're providing me with SPAM. My web browsers are
Lynx and Netscape Navigator (for Linux).
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It will fix some bugs found in your Internet
Explorer. To install the upgrade, please save
the attached file (ie0199.exe) in some folder
and run it.
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It might fix some bugs in YOUR Internet Explorer.
My methods of exploring the Internet go way beyond
web browsing and use a variety of tools and protcols.
The Web is not the Internet and MS Internet Explorer
isn't even a blip on my radar.
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For more information, please visit our
web site at www.microsoft.com/ie/
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To comply with California State Law please don't
send any more unsolicited e-mail to this address.
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(There was a law recently enacted in my state of residence
which requires advertising to display the "ADV:" tag
on the subject line. I'm collecting violations of this
law to forward to my state attorney general's office.
I don't consider it to be an effective deterrent to
SPAM --- but they should enforce it if they're going to
pass it).
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<p><em>Interestingly enough, this message (and another reply to
it from our site) bounced. It can be reasonably suspected that
the true originator of the message was not Microsoft, but someone
trying to convince users of their products, to "upgrade" to an
infected or malicious copy. </em></p>
<p><em>As such, it's really much worse than
"SPAM" although it ia similar, in that it preys on people who
know less about their internet environment, and are willing to
take unwise risks with their assets. These folks are also least
likely to be able to take effective action to correct the problems
that result. </em></p>
<p><em>Don't get snookered -- nobody should be mailing you
a binary without some sort of authentication so you can determine
where it came from, and hat it has survived its ride through the
mail. FTP is really better for anything of reasonable size anyway.</em></p>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
>Copyright &copy;</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 38 March 1999</H5>
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