Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #10186



To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Bumper314@aol.com
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:58:44 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] heat shrink


Hey,
I have always hated using heat shrink to decorate my bots because all I
worked with is that crap from Rat Shack. I got some fairly expensive stuff
from a RC plain store, and boy is that stuff awsome, does just what its
supposed to do.
So I was wondering what you guys think is the best heat shrink

Steve



10187 Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:46:14 +1100 [alt-beam] Re: Beams and robotics net "David Perry" > - spammers have to be a member of this list to post mail to it.


Do they? i remember some people sending messages to the list asking how to
join.

> - if you reply to spam mail, they've got your address.

assuming they used the list, you wouldn't reply to them, rather the list so
in order to pick out addresses.

>So ... if you intend to send a message to the list saying "That's spam",
>then you might as well do a little research first, because they're going
>to get your e-mail address either way.


People usually are paranoid with good cause, i've seen spam attempts like
this alot espcially in less open places (ICQ) and people have good reason to
lash out at any one like this, no offence i hope.
I have to say that on close inspection it did look *very* suspicious and i
can't blame kyle for that.

>You can often track down a related website from an specific e-mail
>address. I tried www.skynet.be, and found a very interesting, major ISP
>based in Belgium. Website is in French, Netherlands, and English. The
>company appears to be affiliated with Belgacom, the major Belgium
>telephone company. So this begins to look legitimate (especially when
>you discover the Belgacom offers free internet service to it's
>customers).


It seemed to me they were handing it out to everyone (sounds weird though)
if they were than they would get a free webmail address which in theory
would be very effective for spam.

>> 2 - Who has the capabilities of just giving out a free server?
>
>Telephone companies!


They still can't hand out free servers, it still costs $35 for domain
registration and there are many costs associated with space and labour.

>Caution is definitely in order, but a bit of research doesn't hurt. From
>what I can tell, this is a legitimate enquiry.


Thank god we can still ping and whois people in this age :-)


David


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