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Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Razor on April 28, 2003, 07:06:53 pm
I get really angry when someone spams my inbox with this crap. Especially since I only have 6MBs of space. I can't really believe that people believe in things like: If you don't send this letter in the next 5 minutes to anyone, you will forever have bad luck in love and yade yade ya.... Yeah like I care. :mad:
What do you think of this? Do you believe?
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Knight Templar on April 28, 2003, 07:31:22 pm
well? did you send it off in time?
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: neo_hermes on April 28, 2003, 07:33:30 pm
I don't think so. i'm not believing a peice of paper could do anything but die.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Razor on April 28, 2003, 07:33:48 pm
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well? did you send it off in time?


Why would I care wasting my time on those? What's gonna happen? All chicks in school are gonna hate me and send me a bomb in a package? Reality check.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Knight Templar on April 28, 2003, 07:38:44 pm
looks like you won't be scoring for the next 7 years then...
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Razor on April 28, 2003, 07:40:20 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
looks like you won't be scoring for the next 7 years then...


Oh that's real shway. :yes: I haven't scored (if you mean hooked up with a girl) in 18 years so, what difference are 7 years gonna make.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Knight Templar on April 28, 2003, 07:45:48 pm
... add another 10 for bringing up how much nobody likes chain letters on a BB. I'll give ya 1 though for being phunny.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: neo_hermes on April 28, 2003, 07:46:38 pm
:lol:
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 28, 2003, 09:20:53 pm
Hotdogs don't taste good with ketchup only.
Title: Re: Chain Letters
Post by: CP5670 on April 28, 2003, 09:24:10 pm
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What do you think of this? Do you believe?


...

you are kidding, right? of course nobody here believes that stuff and deletes it immediately; I should think that would go without saying...
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: pyro-manic on April 28, 2003, 10:46:02 pm
I sometimes (depending on what mood I'm in) send them back to the sender with an abusive message attached. Doesn't do anything bad to them, but makes me feel better, and (hopefully) disuades them from doing it again. Otherwise, I pay them a little visit...:devil: :mad2:
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 28, 2003, 10:49:24 pm
One man broke the chain and later died of old age. One person sent on the letter, and got beaten mercilessly by me with a heavy shoe for getting everyone with the same email hosting spammed.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Sesquipedalian on April 29, 2003, 01:18:34 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
beaten mercilessly by me with a heavy shoe for getting everyone with the same email hosting spammed.
This would be the proper response to chain letters, and forwards of any kind.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Vertigo1 on April 29, 2003, 01:57:12 am
Hell no I don't read them.  If I start getting a fair ammount of them, I start signing the ****er up on every mailing list I can find that doesn't require verification.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 29, 2003, 02:08:37 am
What's that Java page, was set up so that you'd send it to a spammer, they'd click the link, and there'd be about 100 jscript popups *****ing at them for spamming, and you had to go through all of 'em to close? I need to find that again.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nico on April 29, 2003, 02:40:04 am
chain mail? one click: trashbox. big deal.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 29, 2003, 02:44:58 am
You won't mind if I forward you some, then.:D
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nico on April 29, 2003, 02:57:04 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
You won't mind if I forward you some, then.:D


the fact that I get ne a year helps. anyway, if you forward that o me, you'lkl meet a very old friend of mine, he's called ANTI-CMOS, and he's damn efficient :D
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 29, 2003, 03:19:37 am
You mean this (http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/anticmos.html) one?:p

Blah. I've still got a hard drive with Win32.Magistr on it, can't clean it off 'cos it'll kill whatever computer you plug it into to reformat it. Though I might be willing to share on a secure box.:D
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nico on April 29, 2003, 03:25:19 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
You mean this (http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/anticmos.html) one?:p

Blah. I've still got a hard drive with Win32.Magistr on it, can't clean it off 'cos it'll kill whatever computer you plug it into to reformat it. Though I might be willing to share on a secure box.:D


yea, tho the one I got seemed to lack the bug this text mentions. I still have the game that kindly "introduced" the lil d00d to me, tho ( another world ). :)
to be honest, I wouldn't put the thing in my floppytoaster to save my life, tho. the bastard completly ruined my old PC, had to format the HD and reinstall the bios :blah:
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: beatspete on April 29, 2003, 10:27:49 am
The ones that really make me laugh go like this:

"Hello, my name is [insert pathetic name here] and i have no legs and a brain tumour and my daddy beats me and my dog only has one eye and i need an opperation but i can't afford it and i'll die. For everytime you forward this email the [pathetic charity] will donate 5 cents


Ha. Nice try.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Riven on April 29, 2003, 11:17:10 am
i think they're pretty dangerous. Just imagine, virus maker gets one, list of serveral hundred address to start off with
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Vertigo1 on April 29, 2003, 11:40:35 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
What's that Java page, was set up so that you'd send it to a spammer, they'd click the link, and there'd be about 100 jscript popups *****ing at them for spamming, and you had to go through all of 'em to close? I need to find that again.


You mean that "you are an idiot" site?  Dude, it also crashes their browser. :p  If they happen to be working on something memory intensive....it takes down the entire OS. :D  I know because I lost a month's worth of MAX stuff because of that damn site. (I mod a forum where that was posted.  I checked out the link to investigate complaints concerning that link...and bam!)
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 29, 2003, 11:52:39 am
Venom: That wouldn't, ah, be the HOTU version of Another World, would it?:nervous:

Vertigo: Don't think so. Unless you're talking about something other than the stupid banana-dance ****.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nico on April 29, 2003, 12:28:13 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Venom: That wouldn't, ah, be the HOTU version of Another World, would it?:nervous:
.


HOTU?
I can just say it's a friggin old ( french :D ) game. people talked a lot about that one because of that rotoscoping stuff.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Amon_Re on April 29, 2003, 01:16:22 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
You mean this (http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/anticmos.html) one?:p

Blah. I've still got a hard drive with Win32.Magistr on it, can't clean it off 'cos it'll kill whatever computer you plug it into to reformat it. Though I might be willing to share on a secure box.:D


Erm, you *could* make a bootdisk with fdisk & format on, boot from it & just format the drive on it, you know? BTW, plugging in an Win32.Magistr infected HD won't infect the PC *unless* an executable containing the virus (or the virus itself) is executed.

Most Win32 virusses are easilly removed if you ask me, i never had to format a HD to kill a bug :D
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 29, 2003, 01:36:46 pm
That wasn't just me guessing that that would be what would happen, dude. I speak from experience. The disk will share its little infection. I don't care how, I don't care why, and I don't have the time to find out before the computer locks up. I just don't use it.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Galemp on April 29, 2003, 06:07:41 pm
Sell it on eBay... :drevil:

Make sure you tell them it's a hard drive that kills computers. Then they can't sue you.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: neo_hermes on April 29, 2003, 06:09:06 pm
Your evil GE:nod:
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 29, 2003, 06:50:26 pm
Beh, I've got a sorta junk dealership thing going on on the side, someone tries to rip me off or somethin', I'll just, ah, find a special deal on a nice, fast, untested 15-head Maxtor 20G.:D
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nico on April 30, 2003, 02:20:04 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Beh, I've got a sorta junk dealership thing going on on the side, someone tries to rip me off or somethin', I'll just, ah, find a special deal on a nice, fast, untested 15-head Maxtor 20G.:D


make sure the guy is weaker than you, and has no friends, then :doubt:
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 30, 2003, 02:43:23 am
First isn't even an issue, second- hell, he's buying garbage. Computer garbage. How many friends can he ****ing have?
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Nico on April 30, 2003, 02:58:24 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
First isn't even an issue


why, you're He-man? :p
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 30, 2003, 03:09:06 pm
No, I'm well-armed, reasonably tough and fast when I need to be (though my punches ain't so great, and I got that bad leg to consider when stomping on a guy), and I don't meddle around with the whole not-leaving-scars thing. Hurt someone enough from the offset and they'll stop in a hurry.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Amon_Re on May 01, 2003, 01:24:55 pm
I wouldn't mind getting that drive tho ;) Could use some extra space :)

Cheers,
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 01, 2003, 03:09:07 pm
$40.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Amon_Re on May 01, 2003, 03:14:17 pm
LOL :) Is that with or without the bug on it? :)

I do think however that the shipping alone to Belgium might add up to the price till it reaches the price of a new 40GB one

Cheers,
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 01, 2003, 03:20:34 pm
You pay shipping. $40 is the "I don't particularly dislike you, and don't care to dupe you into destroying your computer" price. Goes down to $10 otherwise. And, as I mentioned before, I'm not touching that ****er after what it did to my old box.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Amon_Re on May 01, 2003, 03:29:52 pm
And i still think it's just a matter booting from a bootdisk & formatting it :)

Where are you located & what brand is the drive?

Cheers,
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 01, 2003, 03:49:25 pm
Maxtor, not sure the size anymore, but it's old enough that it's not in the double-digit gigabyte range most likely. East coast of the US. Not in that order.
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Amon_Re on May 01, 2003, 03:58:11 pm
I think i'll pass then, i'm not to keen on maxtor drives, and due to the distance it's probably not worth it, sorry
Title: Chain Letters
Post by: Vertigo1 on May 04, 2003, 12:09:53 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
No, I'm well-armed, reasonably tough and fast when I need to be (though my punches ain't so great, and I got that bad leg to consider when stomping on a guy), and I don't meddle around with the whole not-leaving-scars thing. Hurt someone enough from the offset and they'll stop in a hurry.


So don't staple yourself to a chair then. :D