Hi Lindsay, I'm sorry you feel this way about luv-main, may I instead suggest reframing the question? Rather than take this elsewhere the way to make this on topic may instead be to ask how to investigate the attachment safely under Linux to ascertain whether or not it is malicious and, if not malicious, learn what it actually is. Please don't take the criticism to heart, it's not personal, but born of experience of lists that have gotten mired in off-topic discussions. All the best, Chris (on a phone so excuse formatting)
Thanks for all those that responded, I assumed it was a scam, the timing through me. Anyway little can be done till Wednesday and as the package is comming from the Midlands, England it will very likely be here then. Matt from UKtrainsim in the past has always sent these things by Royal Mail. I understand the problem of offtopic threads on the net but I believe one should be able to discuss important sensible issues with out being forced to listen to stuff one has no interest in. Luv has very strongly put its position so in the end I am gone. The post was a genuine query but I will admit it was an "agent provacteur" (or how ever you spell that) to see if something like this would occur, after the incedent with the speaker thread late last year a friend said "What are you doing with a technical group that forbids certain technical topics, thats not like you". I simply disagree with the rules of the group so in the end thats it. Lindsay
Quoting Lindsay Sprinter (zlinw@mcmedia.com.au):
I understand the problem of offtopic threads on the net but I believe one should be able to discuss important sensible issues with out being forced to listen to stuff one has no interest in. Luv has very strongly put its position so in the end I am gone.
I'm sympathetic to your concern, but wished to suggest a remedy that might suit your needs: Subscribe your address to luv-talk (via http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk), but then set the 'nomail' option on that subscription. (That permits you to post whenever you wish.) Leave the subscription set 'nomail' except on rare occasions when you wish to participate in non-Linux discussions -- or leave the nomail option set and at your convenience check postings via the luv-talk Web archive. If that doesn't suit your needs, I understand that, too, and wished to merely offer an option you might not have considered. -- Cheers, Chip Salzenberg: "Usenet is not a right." Rick Moen Edward Vielmetti: "Usenet is a right, a left, a jab, rick@linuxmafia.com and a sharp uppercut to the jaw. McQ! (4x80) The postman hits! You have new mail."
Now I do not like to contribute to any serious discussion without a lot of thinking time, under the circumstances I will have a go. I am an individual with my own personal prefernces if they are not like the majorities there is nothing wrong with that. I get on very well with the world on subjects that interest me. This is a free world as far as I am concerend anyone can do what they wish as long if it is something that do not like I do not have to witness or take part in the activity. With interent I carefully chose what I wish to look at,with an open forum it is almost certain subjects will come up that will cause me concern in the end it is my choice that I do not want to put myself through such things. In the current case a good number of people has indicated I am out of line. Luv is the group of individuals in this case in a real sense the group has spoken. I have no wish to impose myself on anyone so I feel the path that I am taking is OK. Over the years I have been with group it has been helpfull and interesting. With almost everything a take great joy in figureing out difficult problems so leaving such a group as luv as not a major disaster. I wish everyone well but it is clear now time to try and view other horizons. Linux since kernel 0.96d and forever, Lindsay
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 05:51:19PM +1000, Lindsay Sprinter wrote:
I understand the problem of offtopic threads on the net but I believe one should be able to discuss important sensible issues with out being forced to listen to stuff one has no interest in. Luv has very strongly put its position so in the end I am gone.
so far, LUV hasn't expressed any position at all. some members have expressed their own personal positions.
The post was a genuine query but I will admit it was an "agent provacteur" (or how ever you spell that) to see if something like this would occur, after the incedent with the speaker thread late last year a friend said "What are you doing with a technical group that forbids certain technical topics, thats not like you".
luv-main doesn't forbid certain technical topics. luv-main has a specific focus on linux- and LUV- related topics. there's a difference. conversations tend to drift and wander around a bit but they generally START being relevant to linux or LUV and generally remain mostly relevant. in this particular case, your important security issue was about a windows virus - ANY email asking you to read a "document" that turns out to be a .exe is *guaranteed* to be some kind of virus. windows viruses are not in the least bit relevant to linux or to luv. they're not sensible or important or even interesting here (yet you wanted to force us to discuss it here, so YOU didn't have to be "forced" to discuss it on luv-talk. strange) ignoring the irony in that you have, in effect, done the equivalent of asking and expecting your plumber to teach you how to bake a cake. on their own time, because you chanced to run into them. or something like that. there are other mailing lists where that topic is entirely relevant (and where discussing linux in-depth would be off-topic, and probably flame-bait). craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #405: Sysadmins unavailable because they are in a meeting talking about why they are unavailable so much.
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