I have a very odd system. I have a copy of Thunderbird running on a machine that does all my filtering. (I cannot stand the way Outlook does it.)

I used to use an ancient copy of KMail (KDE Desktop) that dd this since I could utilize regular expressions to sort in interesting ways. Alas, it has succumbed to bit rot.

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Do you have anything else to add before I put you in the spam list?

Has been sent from here before.

There's being prompt and diligent about auto-updating software and there's taking liberties and being a pain in the ass.

Seems a lot of folks are tending towards the latter.

..That said…I may have been involved in the "warez" scene in the late 80s.

(I was young-ish) :)

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The only thing I have ever used BitTorrent for were DVD ISO images of distros and the like.

I'm a little militant when it comes to piracy because we make a very large chunk of our income from digital sales (ebooks).

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As USENET archives from the 90s will attest, when you click send or post, it is entirely out of your control and you can't rebottle it.

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I always have the most boring home screens compared to everyone else.

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All of this is why you seldom see more from me than inane chatter and the occasional car pic.

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@kdfrawg What one of those pulses would do to an integrated circuit..

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@kdfrawg One good solar burst like we had a little over a century ago…It's going to be a disaster.

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