(no subject)

What?!

--- Scrivner A <A.Scrivner@> wrote:
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"I laugh in the face of danger...
...and then I run away and hide." - Xander

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I've not been able to decode the file, but it looks like someone's tried to
attach a file called neighbours.exe
and forward it to the Chat list. I think that the IFIS chat scripts must
filter messages somehow,
because the file is not decodeable.

however, if anyone *has* been able to decode it, I would recommend *NOT*
running it. It looks a bit fishy to me,
and I would err on the side of a virus scanner.
And please, if anyone wants to reply to the original FW:, *PLEASE* delete
all that coded gunk, rather than
quoting the entire message!

many thanks
Asan


----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Whincup <nobrainalex@>
To: <chat@>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: FW: (no subject)

Asan Tu said:
The IFIS mailing-lists remove all MIME headers, at the advice of the RHUL
Comp Ctr sysadmins, because it was ALLEGEDLY the MIME stuf that was causing
all the problems back at the start of this academic year, when IFIS posts
didn't get through to rhbnc.ac.uk accounts, but also didn't tell me any
useful errors.

Attachments use MIME... in other words they won't work on the IFIS lists. On
the other hand, that's probably a GOOD thing, because the IFIS lists are not
here to swap vast binaries, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, or even
word documents, just "real email" chat and announcements and whatever.

In the unlikely event that this EXE was both:
1) actually ifis-related, AND
2) scanned with an up-to-date virus checker...

... then please email it to me personally, and I'll put it on the IFIS
website... Thus also saving vast ammounts of space in members' inboxes.

The above applies to ANYONE who (for some stupid reason) thinks it's
appropriate to send attachments to mailing-lists.

---

Nick Waterman. Senior Systems Administrator, Sony Interactive Services
mailto:nick-sig@ http://www.nilex.co.uk/~nick/
AX25:G7RZQ@#32.GBR.EU #include <stddisclaimer> Team *AMIGA*!
I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance.

ARGGGGGGHHHHH !!!!! Run for your lives!!! The Martians have landed!!!
<Ack Ack Ack AckAckAck Ack-Ack>
That was the truncated version???? How long was the original????

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--- Wingrove RJ <R.J.Wingrove@> wrote:
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"I laugh in the face of danger...
...and then I run away and hide." - Xander

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RUN FOR THE HILLS, UNLESS THEY'RE COMING FROM THE HILLS, IN WHICH CASE RUN
AWAY FROM THE HILLS, RUN AWAY FROM THE HILLS, IF YOU SEE THE HILLS, RUN THE
OTHER WAY!!!!!!!!!

I must dig out my Slim Whitman collection - it is the only defence aginst
the alien presence (short of a pump-action shotgun).

Actually, while I'm on the subject, here's a quick test. If a UFO landed in
your garden one night, would you;

a) Wander towards them in your pyjamas, rubbing sleep from your eyes and
trying to put your glasses on
b) Put on your Sunday best, and stride confidently towards them with hand
outstretched, remembering that you represent all of humanity
b) hide under the bed until Mulder and Scully comne along and scare them off
c) Pap your pants, grab the biggest, nastiest gun you can find, and run
screaming at the little 5-eyed 4-armed green gits trying to re-arrange their
multiple stomachs using high explosives.

Congratulations, so would I.

From: Scrivner A <A.Scrivner@>
To: "'chat@'" <chat@>
Subject: FW: (no subject)
Date sent: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:24:30 -0000
Send reply to: chat@

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Is this supposed to be some sort of test of patience?


Jon