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In article <pe6i3.125$85.2985@typ42b.nn.bcandid.com>, Console Cowboy
<console@die.spammer.choking.on.your.blood.org> wrote:

> See, those of us using tin don't have that problem.  It doesn't even
> recognize that a file was ever attached.

While users of MT-NewsWatcher note that there's a binary attached, but
it's not downloaded from the server unless requested...

> ...which is why I maintain my stance that a unix proficiency test should
> be required in order to gain any Internet access.  And why tin and lynx
> will rule foreer.

I use lynx a *lot* in the course of a day, but I've mostly given up on tin
- there are *better* newsreaders available. tin's got it's good points,
but with MT-NewsWatcher I can download and read multiple newsgroups and
threads simultaneously (read one newsgroup's messages while downloading
another set, download a newsgroups headers without getting the messages,
grab binaries if I need 'em while reading other newgroups, etc. The MT in
the name indicates "multi-threaded.") The filtering (regexp-based!) is
nice, too.

I don't necessarily agree with a *UNIX* proficiency test, but a basic
understanding of why it's really *stupid* to upload binaries in non-binary
groups, general network architecture, general (basic) security for
whatever platform they're using, etc. There should be a question on the
test as to why it's stupid to reply to a spammer, too.

I've been having fun for the last few weeks tracking down the script
kiddies who keep scanning various networks for NetBus or Back Orifice
servers. Don't they have anything better to do?

-- 
Send me junk mail, and get a nastygram for your provider.
John Groseclose (caradoc@neta.com)
http://www.neta.com/~caradoc