Beware of Radio Shack

Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:54 pm   

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:01:01 GMT, "Bob Day" <xxxxxxx_at_yyyyyyy.com>
wrote:

|
| "Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM_at_dslextreme.com> wrote in
| message
| news:10kj0dojf91md3f_at_corp.supernews.com...
| < snip >
| > With Fedex, everything goes thru Memphis, so it shouldn't make any diff.
| > UPS I don't know. Fedex sucks IMHO. Nowadays, DHL is eating UPS' and
| > Fedex's lunch, and I hope they put Fedex out of business.
| >
|
| I've always had very good luck with FedEx. It's UPS I try
| to avoid.

Amen to that! NewEgg ships via FedEx and my stuff nearly always
arrives at least a day earlier than scheduled. :-)

Larc



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Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:27 am   

And even when they are available, they don't know anything 'bout electronics! I
won't go back. Also, All Electronics Corp is pretty good with parts.

John

Sat Sep 18, 2004 6:38 am   

My personal experience with Digikey:
I was the official Parts Dude at a well-known company what makes door
security access thingies.
Surface-mount items mostly, but when I wanted it quick, it was Digi-Key.
I would get parts orders in at 4:30 Post Meridian Denver time and have the
merchandise by 10:30 Ante Meridian by FedEx the very next day.
Not bad, I think...

"JS" <JS_at_huh.wha> wrote in message
news:Xns95628703F997DQ1V66HO78NX3AGH5MJX_at_127.0.0.1...
| "John Halley" <comet_at_dimensional.com> wrote in
| news:41434434$1_3_at_omega.dimensional.com:
|
| > It was overwhelming. There was nothing you couldn't find!
| > I guess I'll just have to start an account with Digikey or Newark or
| > Mouser. --- Heavy sigh...---
| >
|
| Digikey is highly regarded round these parts.

Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:34 am   

info_at_hillscapital.com wrote:


Watch out for these posts. They are part of an attack
on the news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup by an entity
known as "hipcrime". (google for it.)

Forged posts are made to various groups with the followup-to:
header set to news.admin.net-abuse.email. NANAE is being
bombarded directly and indirectly by the "WTF!", "I didn't
post that!", etc. responses. If you want to post a warning
to a group or groups, make sure you reset the headers
appropriately, or you will be aiding hipcrime in the DOS.

--
Clem
"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."
- Fudd's first law of opposition

Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:34 am   

"Mr. Uh Clem" <uhclem_at_DutchElmSt.invalid> wrote in message
news:41d214da$0$30417$9a6e19ea_at_news.newshosting.com...


While some NNTP clients will alert the user that the FollowUp-To header
has been used, many do not. Outlook Express does not. Seeing that a
poster is trying to disconnect replies to their post back into some
"home" group would be very helpful to me. If they don't want to
continue the discussion in the group in which I participate then my
group was not an appropriate or related group for their post in the
first place. In fact, I would love if OE had a rule that would check if
the FollowUp-To header were used and delete that post so I wouldn't even
be bothered to see it. But then I'd like to delete any posts with
"!mail2news" in the PATH header to eliminate seeing message from posters
using anonymous mail-to-news gateways. Of course, OE's rules suck so it
doesn't take much to get beyond its capabilities (oh, I've tried
Thunderbird and its rules suck as bad as OE's). Xnews had better rules
(defined in an external file) but have UI deficiencies and I came back
to OE.

If they post to a group where I visit and also to other groups, like to
their "home" group, then the post should have been related to every
group to which it was posted so it should have been cross-posted.
Cross-posting would eliminate the need for the FollowUp-To header since
the poster can view the replies in their home group while I can view
them in my group, and no one must necessarily subscribe to anyone else's
preferred group to continue or monitor the discussion. Anyone who uses
the FollowUp-To but does not announce that fact in their post should be
considered very rude and possibly attempting something nasty, like
redirecting replies to alt.test to avoid anyone in those groups seeing
the negative replies that the poster expects. Even if they announce it,
and because they chose to post in my group and I don't want to visit
their group or post over there (because I don't know if my reply would
really be appropriate over there), I'll use the FollowUp-To header (and
announce it) to subvert their use of the FollowUp-To header. Tit for
tat.

Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:09 am   

Mr. Uh Clem:


How do I do that -- climb a tree, hide in the bushes? And what do I do
if I detect one?


Who gives a rat's kneecaps?


Aren't such posts kind of their own warning? Why would I want to call
further attention to them as you have done? Or do you love this sort of
thing because it makes you feel like a great public servant? Are you
in fact the perp, like a fireman-arsonist?

Davoud

--
usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:26 pm   

"Mr. Uh Clem" <uhclem_at_DutchElmSt.invalid> wrote in message
news:41d214da$0$30417$9a6e19ea_at_news.newshosting.com...

Just another example that it is way overdue to rewrite most of the protocols
in use on the internet today. POP3, SMTP, NNTP, DHCP, DNS, etc... all need
to be more secure. All need to better identify the source and allow admins
to control what gets onto their networks.

Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:35 am   

Davoud wrote:

1. Ignore them.
2. Be aware of what is going on so as to post a denial/warning in your
groups as noted below.


Good netizens. People who are interested in getting this
to stop.


Obviously not. The posts are a trap, they confuse people.
They annoy people. They trick people into making posts
such as "This was not sent by me.... I don't know how this
happened... I have no idea what gives" which have been
raining in on NANAE by the thousands. Tricked respondents
are then further confused when their posts disappear. The
volume and variety of responses implies that the splorgeries
have been posted all over the place, to the detriment of all.


Posts on NANAE would be pointless and would stoke the ego of
the perp. Posts in other groups serve to inoculate the
groups against the attacks. People will know what is going
on and the attack will lose its power.


I want to blunt the attacks. Your remark is uncalled for.


No. Are you in fact an asshole?

If you need the obvious spelled out to you further,
someone else will have to do it. I'm outta this
thread.


-- This was not sent by me.... I don't know how this happened... I have
no idea
what gives
Clem
"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."
- Fudd's first law of opposition

Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:22 am   

Davoud wrote:

Dude, the guys at NANAE are the good guys. They're sysadmins working
against spam. NANAE is a clearinghouse for up to date information
regarding the lastest sources of spam. hipcrime is trying to lower the
signal to noise ratio and make NANAE less effective through the
mechanisms Mr. Uh Clem wrote.

Don't be an dick.

'cid 'ooh

Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:48 am   

Entity John A. Weeks III spoke thus:


don't know why it's still circulating.
I wrote a letter of complaint to Radio Shack's Regional Manager and some
months later returned to the same store in Santa Fe where I was informed
that their policy had changed. Customers ordering satellite service are no
longer required to announce their Social Security Number to all customers in
the store.

So drop it.

--
Gnarlie's virtual Tour de Santa Fe:
http://Gnarlodious.com/SantaFe/Tour.php