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| | | Ok. This is a rhetorical question, mostly as an excuse to vent. How could anyone who works in the I/T industry be so stunningly ignorant as to catch the Mailissa virus? For that matter, how could anyone who works in the I/T industry be so stunningly (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) I am in software development. I just thumped one of our testers for forwarding me a warning message (obstensibly from AOL *and* IBM *and* Netscape) about an e-mail virus titled "It Takes Guts To Say Jesus" which, upon opening, will erase your (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) stunningly (...) I'll pray for you. (...) Next time reply, "Yes you can, and you can be ignorant and paranoid, and be unwilling to change." (...) Would that be an arctic tern or a New York tern? (...) I thought I saw him at Safeway the other (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Kevin Bane
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| | | | | | Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote in message news:37619503.B60145...ies.com... (...) full (...) How about "DMV Emplyee of the Year"? (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) In New Jersey, we'd usually call 'em "Flat." Red means stop, green means honk. LFB (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Ed Jones
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| | | | | (...) warnings at work. They will download anything!!! Just to get our e:mail system back up, IT ran a virus check on every computer (over 10,000) and then distributed a memo (actually taped to everyone's screen) stating - IF YOUR LOG-IN SCREEN IS (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) And you wonder why your system is setup like little Big Brother? Maybe they were color-blind. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Lee Jorgensen
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| | | | Yes, computer _LITERATE_ people should know that reading an e-mail is different than opening attachments ... ...but ... The IQ of the world is constant, the population keeps growing. -Lee. PS, I'm a software programmer/analyst. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Yeah... Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Stunningly ignorant people —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) I've got news for you: I'm an academic, and we have so many of the Pavlovian non-net.savvy it would make you *freak out*. They'll open anything, even though they don't even use the restrooms in the Department office because they're afraid! (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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