Troll on imsai.net?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Oct 21 13:56:00 2002

It's hard to debunk some hoaxes. There is always a CHANCE that it might
be real! And those who believe it will think that you are a heartless
asshole just for questioning it.


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, JD Gouws wrote:
> Then why go at length to describe the W.O.P.R. lettering and the BASF
> disks?

To add credibility. The idea is that some otherwise non-gullible people
will fall for it by taking the reasoning of:
> Then why go at length to describe the W.O.P.R. lettering and the BASF
> disks?


Why say that the 8" diskettes are 12"?


> handover of such a system if it's dontated to a boy would be caught
> out once there is no boy to receive it.

If you were to respond to it, they'll want you to ship it; for some
reason, the boy isn't available this week, ...


There's a guy in Nigeria who wants to transfer a whole lotta embezzled
money into my bank account, . . . I wonder if he'd pay for a replacement
machine?


> Is there ANY chance that the ink from pens/markers can damage a CD
> over a long period of time? I'm marking my cds with a black marker
> that has Xylene in it. Aint these inks acidic? I dont want to recover
> all my paper tapes to CD only to find after 20 years that the ink
> markings ate away the surface..

1) I heard that such marks, particularly around the circumference CAN
interfere with the proper functioning of one of the copy protection
schemes!
Received on Mon Oct 21 2002 - 13:56:00 BST