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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 18 Dec 2009 14:55 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:55:49 +0000, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > >> > It's not spyware, so stop bloody overreacting. >> >> Then what do you call it, >> if you don't want to call it >> by it's customary name? > >"An unwanted header". > >For pity's sake... What, are we talking about the User-Agent string? Anyone who doesn't want it can molest it to something innocuous with a hex editor, I suppose. Spyware. Ha. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx
From: Jim on 18 Dec 2009 15:24 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:55:49 +0000, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) > wrote: > > >J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > >> > It's not spyware, so stop bloody overreacting. > >> > >> Then what do you call it, > >> if you don't want to call it > >> by it's customary name? > > > >"An unwanted header". > > > >For pity's sake... > > What, are we talking about the User-Agent string? Anyone who doesn't > want it can molest it to something innocuous with a hex editor, I > suppose. > > Spyware. Ha. Exactly. It's not exactly broadcasting your credit card details to the world. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Dec 2009 17:35 J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > Then what do you call it, > if you don't want to call it > by it's customary name? 'Spyware' certainly *isn't* the customary name for what that is. I don't think that there is a customary name for it, probably because it's so trivial. -- Peter
From: J. J. Lodder on 19 Dec 2009 05:33 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > > > Then what do you call it, > > if you don't want to call it > > by it's customary name? > > 'Spyware' certainly *isn't* the customary name for what that is. > > I don't think that there is a customary name for it, probably because > it's so trivial. So 'spyware' will have to do, Jan PS I hope you will agree his is objectionable behaviour. Suppose you visit another uk.comp.sys.mac regular who you didn't know personally yet, for some reason. That person next post a message to uk.comp.sys.mac 'I want you all to know that Peter C. drives a bright red 1999 Peugeot 205'. (or something like it) Would you approve of such behaviour? Jan
From: Peter Ceresole on 19 Dec 2009 05:53
J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > That person next post a message to uk.comp.sys.mac > 'I want you all to know that Peter C. drives > a bright red 1999 Peugeot 205'. > (or something like it) I did once; a diesel. 205. Bright red. But it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. -- Peter |