The Harrow egger

In "]news:[email hidden],
Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment
about?

I'd virus scan your PC if that wasn't intended :-)

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX
execute permissions, despite being intended only to show on
Outlook Express.

A

in message <[email hidden]>, Ambrose Nankivell

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In "]news:[email hidden], Nathaniel
Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs"
attachment about?

I'd virus scan your PC if that wasn't intended :-)

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX
execute permissions

Revelation 13:18

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs"
attachment about?

It's a bug in your so-called newsreader, of course. There
was no attachment and your newsreader is telling stupid
lies. That bug, exploited the other way round, helps to let
the viruses in.

Quoted message said:

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX
execute permissions,

Now that is even more bizarre. WTF do you suppose you're
talking about?

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Nick Kew said:

In article <[email hidden]>, "Ambrose
Nankivell"

Quoted message said:

Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment
about?

It's a bug in your so-called newsreader, of course. There
was no attachment and your newsreader is telling stupid
lies. That bug, exploited the other way round, helps to
let the viruses in.

Quoted message said:

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX
execute permissions,

Now that is even more bizarre. WTF do you suppose you're
talking about?

| begin 666 this_is_not_a_virus.vbs There is no virus
| attached to this post. end

FWIW, Gnus also displays it as an "attachment". Are you sure
you're thinking of the right thing?

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is strength

In "]news:[email hidden],
Nick Kew <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>, "Ambrose
Nankivell"

Quoted message said:

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX
execute permissions,

Now that is even more bizarre. WTF do you suppose you're
talking about?

My bad, completely sorry. I assumed that in the "begin 666
this_is_not_a_virus" the 666 was to look like chmod
permissions, but of course that's globally writeable and not
executable, anyway.

Of course I know it's not going to have any effect on a
POSIX system. That's why it struck me as amusing, but I
guess I should have kept it to myself.

A

In article <[email hidden]>,

Keith Willoughby said:

FWIW, Gnus also displays it as an "attachment". Are you
sure you're thinking of the right thing?

Hmmm ...

In Gnus's case, one could imagine it to be some kind of
legacy support for uuencoding. In M$'s case that's a
great deal less plausible, because uuencoding had been
obsolete for the better part of a decade before M$ ever
heard of email.

Even so it's broken.

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Not me guv

Pyromancer said:

Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified
as dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers
<[email hidden]> breathed:

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Quoted message said:

That was supposed to be a yolk, yes?

Quoted message said:

She poached it from someone else I think. But as the
thread gets longer, I could be getting a bit scrambled up
in my readings.

But which came first, the egg or the chicken who threw it?

And does anyone really give a cluck?

Jeremy