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From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sat Nov 9 15:54:00 2002

"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Why not save energy, and use a water immersion that is very slowly brought
> to a boil?

Hey, why not be green, at least from an energy point of view? I'm
imagining a big concave mirror and a hoist. Tie the rope to
appendages appropriate to the crime, and hoist the miscreant into the
focal point.

...

What really cheeses me off about this sort of thing is that the
service providers don't go out of their way to make it easy to
identify fraudulent use of their names (or do any kind of sane mail
filtering, for that matter) by looking at the source and destination
domain names in e-mail headers and URLs.

For example, four years ago I bought a then-new HP scanner. I
registered it, and gave them an e-mail address. Once a month or so, I
get this thing that says something like "Happy Halloween from HP" in
the Subject, was mailed from some domain name in p0.com, and has a
bunch of URLs with domain names in p01.com.

How the foo is J. Random Customer supposed to tell the difference
between this and an attempt to defraud or commit identity theft?

-Grumpy Ol' Frank
Received on Sat Nov 09 2002 - 15:54:00 GMT