Subj : Theoretical situation
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Tue Feb 26 2002 07:33 am

    Subject:  Theoretical situation
    On Monday February 25 2002 at 18:04,
    Steve Quarrella wrote to Gerald Miller:

 GM>> Cases of "behavior modification"  ???  <g, d & r>

 SQ> Kinda like Feliway, which deters cats from spraying all over the
 SQ> place, but with the idea of keeping certain dogs at bay.

Yea, but try and get a cat to drink that stuff...  :)

 GM>> I suppose Steve Quarrella was seeking a solution to his
 GM>> "Theoretical situation" to be totally within the realm of OT.

 SQ> Yep, but it's great to see another great mind (yours) on the same
 SQ> track as mine.  Of course, that could get you locked away, if you're
 SQ> not careful. <heh>

Locked away?  Been there, done that, got the cheap T-shirt, NEW
PLAN! (be very careful - don't get caught!) <snicker>

 GM>> I'm sure that Mr. Quarrella has been active for a
 GM>> considerable time and has dealt such _similar_ theoretical

 SQ> I have been active in Fidonet going back to the 1980s, but
 SQ> "officially," my node is about ten years old, although 1992 was a
 SQ> little patchy given relocation from Detroit to Salt Lake to the Dallas
 SQ> area.  I have observed weenies of all types in my years in Fidonet,
 SQ> and once used a primitive program called "Exclude" (Fredric Rice,
 SQ> 1:218/890, and he -may- have had the aforementioned Steve Winter in
 SQ> mind when he wrote it) to simply eat netmails from undesirables.  Over
 SQ> the years, I have to occasionally filter out someone who's spewing
 SQ> like a busted sewerpipe.  Obviously, you can do this with OT, you can
 SQ> do it with NetMgr, you can do it with FTrack, and there are likely
 SQ> others.  Some weenies are constant as the Northern Star, while others
 SQ> come and go in clusters, not unlike the occasional meteor showers that
 SQ> we see.  Today, my software filters out nobody (at least not in my
 SQ> netmail area), but given that I learned "Be Prepared" in the Boy
 SQ> Scouts, and I see plenty of asteroid activity these days, I'd rather
 SQ> have my ducks in a row if I have to get into that business again.

I know something about which you speak; I've been around (almost
as long as you) and your reputation preceeds you. <g, d, & r>

Seriously, some of the messages written by you (over the years),
have been most helpful in my "education".  I may even have been a
victum of some of those programs over the years, but you learn to
survive, or you don't!

 GM>> ... "`GOD TOLD ME' is no excuse for stupidity." -Steve
 GM>> Quarrella

 SQ> Hey, nice tagline!  I still get e-mails about that. :-)

I thought you would be flattered.  ;}

           Cheers ... Gerald

--- GoldED+/386 1.1.5-1227
 * Origin: And now, a brief musical interlude... (1:342/512)

.