[plug] Mobile phone scam - Beware

[meyerri]

---- Original Message ----
From: shannon.carver at gmail.com
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Mobile phone scam - Beware
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:07:42 +0800

>Hehe, this reminds me of that old picture that used to go round all
>the
>time:
>
>"Arguing on the Internet is like winning at the special Olympics,
>Even if
>you win, you're still retarded!!" And it had a picture of a disabled
>kid
>running over the finish line.
>
>One thing I find good about reading messages & replies on this
>mailing list,
>is we share one common interest, Linux.  Which is good, it usually
>means
>everyone sees pretty much eye to eye on most things. 

Umm, no. We all see eye-to-eye on one thing, and that's Linux is
better than anything else available (except for those who say that
Outlook is great in small businesses). As for the rest, we're all
over the place - ask us about politics, sex, religion, war in Iraq,
and we're all over the place. Heck, ask us about Linux distros and
we're not singing the same tune.

 I'll say this,
>linux
>users can be an arrogant bunch, it's just a bit of a shame it had to
>come to
>this.

Noooo never noticed that about Linux people   ;-)

Personally, I wish it'd gone to the off-topic list, and the followups
as well - I give Arie credit for trying to help, but I've seen so
many similar notes about the next virus that's going to format your
hard drive and install PC-DOS 3.3 if you look at a certain website
during the full moon, that I more or less ignored it.
>
>P.S I realise the special Olympics comment *could* be offensive, I
>don't
>mean any offence by it though.
>
You're sure to have offended someone.  ;-)   Not me, though.

Cheers
RM