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[hobbitomm]

Well, as you all know, I do a fair amount of research, and the main databases I use for this are supplied by a company called Ovid. To use them, you need to login. So far so good. I have a login. Ah. But the URL that results from logging in doesn't play with the Trust Firewall, so the dbs won't load. Which means I can't research. Okay... so.... phone the library, who are responsible for it at this end.

Ah. A known problem with our firewall. Talk to IT support.
Ah. A known problem with their .cgi scripts. We're not changing our firewall. Talk to their support.
Ah. An unknown problem. It'll be their firewall. We'll see what we can do, but it may need changes in your firewall......


AAAAAARGH! Who moved me into Kafka when I wasn't looking?

Comments

[graylion.livejournal.com]

short stake. nastiest thing know.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Takes too long - you can get through a lot of spammers quickly with one handy reusable, biodegradable length of rope.

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

How?

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Serial hangings. If the rope's long enough you can even hang them in parallel. If it's really long you can have massively-parallel hangings.

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

Considering spammers range from Florida to Siberia, you'd need a really really long rope. ;)

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

We can round them up first. Maybe prod them a little with some of Arpad's short stakes. :)

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

I guess that means finding them first. Since many of them are nothing more than computer programs, Arpad's stakes won't be much use on them.

Still the human ones could be useful for point practice and target archery as well...

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

But we can round up the programmers of said spam programs.

Using some of them for target practice seems a reasonalbe idea to me. I used to have a game for the Atari ST that had, as its closing credit, "End animal experimentation - use virus-writers instead". Quite clever, I thought.