05-09-2025, 15:23
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RIP Tigger - 12 years?!
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Oh, nice try!
I just checked my spam folder. In there were a few messages warning me that if I didn't renew my email account by the 4th, it would be shut down, shock horror. 
Even if the sender hadn't had a nonsensical URL, I was checking today, and guess what, the account is as active as ever - there were some legit messages. I can understand newbies getting worried about this, but I've been in IT since the days when MS-DOS came on a 5 1/4" floppy. Deleted forever.
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05-09-2025, 15:29
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XIV
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Re: Oh, nice try!
My junk folder has improved a lot in recent years. I sometimes get a flurry of shit mail but it's always managed expertly in the junk folder. Windows and Gmail have upped their game for me.
A bad note sometimes mail that was destined for my inbox end up in the junk folder but that's a minor inconvenience I can always check.
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05-09-2025, 15:36
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RIP Tigger - 12 years?!
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: Oh, nice try!
I've just realised what I sound like:
Ee, when I were a lad... 
Still, I sometimes miss the old days. Is it me, or was it more fun back in the 8-bit days?
Or should that be 'I miss the old days sometimes'? Did I split an infinitive there? Come back, Gene Roddenberry, all is forgiven! 
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05-09-2025, 16:09
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Oh, nice try!
Pfffft...
Kids today, etc., etc...
In the early 80s (working on Honeywell Level 6 and DPS/6, RPG2), I used to fly out most weeks with a couple of 8 inch floppys in my hand luggage (taken out before going through the scanners, with a cover letter from the Company lawyer stating they were not to be x-rayed) with the software updates for installation and user testing for the offices in Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Bochum, and last, but very definitely least, Aberdeen.
I remember when we got our first Compaq luggable (late 83 or early 84), we had to Customs and Export documentation to get it out of, and back into, the UK.
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08-09-2025, 18:45
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Re: Oh, nice try!
I keep getting emails, multiple a day claiming to be from "Google Support Specialist", then you look at the email and find it's really not from Google.
If I had a system setup and an email address etc I could use for it, I would love to reply back with some smart ass comments.
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