Random Talk Thread, Mk. III

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Frodo Code-o, the key(board)master. Take this flash drive and dispose of it in Mount


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Dude I got a feeling some moron is gonna be playing fornite while driving

Well, it had to happen sooner or later…

Just got a scam email informing me that I’m owed restitution for falling victim to scam emails, and all I have to do to get reimbursed is provide relevant financial information:

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At want point does this end, and the scam emails become so recursive that they vanish into their own black hole? Can’t happen soon enough.

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I mean, given you’re reading your spam emails in the first place you might as well count their strange nature as a benefit.

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Simply opening them in the first place will get you even more spam. You don’t have click anything. Merely reading it triggers more.

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I don’t normally read them at all, but every once in a while a subject line will catch my eye enough to make me take a text–only look. There is a strange artistic quality about some of them, I will admit. This one isn’t quite up to Markov chain generated spams for odd beauty, but it’s not bad. Heck, I’ve read far worse essays from university students!

Only if you allow your mail client to automatically fetch remote images and other hyperlinked content. You’re pretty safe in pure text mode in that regard. Besides, I’ve had the same email address for 30 years - I seriously doubt there’s a spam list I’m not on. :dukerage:

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As well as the ā€˜alt lit’ poetry of the single spam email, more catastrophic chains (especially within institutions) can be terribly entertaining. My favourite one ever was at my current university: someone was looking for participants in a research survey and instead of just sending the email about it to mailing lists, they decided to send it to every student mailing list and every individual non-student email address in the uni. This caused utter chaos - quite a lot of senior staff members sent furious replies, but they did it by reply all, which worsened the situation; plus a lot of the addresses like library enquiries sent automated responses to everyone. Then someone had the bright idea of emailing everyone ā€˜please take me off this list’, presumably not realising that there was no centrally run mailing list and they were just compounding the problem. Hundreds of people started doing the same. Eventually people started replying to tell people to stop replying, and these replies were met with further ā€˜please take me off this list’ replies. It went on for weeks.

Sometimes it does feel like odd witchcraft means merely looking at these will somehow end up creating more.

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I remember hearing about that particular episode. It was truly epic. The closest I’ve seen here was a quite creepy ā€œcome-onā€ email sent as a ā€œReply-Allā€. The atmosphere in the department was quite… different for a few days after that. A little hard for the perpetrator to deny after sending a copy to literally everyone in the department (including the grad students and office staff).

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Kirby ehhhhhh

New or nah?

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Well this is interesting (to me, anyway!).

What I find amusing is his listing of his major program versus his spelling of ā€œprobableā€ :smiley:

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Then again, I keep having to remind myself that it’s ā€˜English Literature’ and not ā€˜English Literacy’!

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This amused me.

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I’m going to keep this as a relic.

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Double post!

My dad is going to temporarily live in California for a few weeks for his job.

I’m going to miss him… :cry:

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@Hattie

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new, Star Allies on Switch

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Kiss me I’m English but I work in postcolonial studies

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I’m more Irish than my mom.

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No.

Is it like saint Patricks Day or something?

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