On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:26:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:48:20AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >On 19/10/2011 01:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:14:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:09:26AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >>>> On 18/10/2011 14:30, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > >>>>> Jon Clugston sent the following at Monday, October 17, 2011 7:30 PM > >>>>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Abigail Cox > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> My name is Abigail Cox and I was wondering if you are interested in > >>>>>>> exchange links, I'll place your link on my sites exactly here: > >>>>>> What the hell are these e-mails? > >>>>> I think that some web search engines* rank sites based on how many links to > >>>>> a page are on other web sites. Exchanging links would move one up the > >>>>> results page. > >>>>> > >>>>> * I believe that Google's original algorithm was based on that - I don't > >>>>> know what they do now. > >>>>> > >>>>> - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> TL;DR: they are spam. > >>>> > >>>> cheers, > >>>> DaveK > >>>> [snip] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> DaveK, > >>> Don't you know our rule about not quoting people's email address in the > >>> body of the email message? It's considered to be rude. I'm surprised > >>> you didn't know about it. > >> > >> How embarrassing. I did it myself! > >> > >> cgf > > > > > > Oh, I do apologise. Do you mean I shouldn't have said: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >in my original post? I just wanted to confirm that saying: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >would not be the right thing to do. > > Correct. Thanks for understanding. I just don't want abigail.cox333@googlemail.com to > be needlessly spammed thanks to our gaffe. > > cgf After a very hard week, you guys have made me laugh. Really. Thanks! -- Huella de clave primaria: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56