short takes

[cellio]

My credit-card company informs me that they now offer "zero liability protection" (for stolen cards). Were I the writer I would have found a different way to phrase that. :-)

Speaking of phrasing, it might be in poor taste to use the word "deadline" when talking about a hostage situation. Just a thought, CNN.

The spammers have found a mailing list I own. It's a moderated list, so they are inconveniencing me a bit but not getting to the subscribers, but I still wish they'd stop it. I wonder whether things would get better or worse if I had Majordomo reject the messages. Would that be treated as bounced mail, or seen as a human being present? I assume the latter.

I heard back from the folks at HUC about internet access (check), and I have found someone to borrow a laptop from for the trip. Yay; I won't have to face a week and a half's worth of email all at once. :-) Aside: Mapquest seems to be broken; today it informed me that Pittsburgh to Cincinnati is a 3.5-hour drive. Um, not under current traffic laws! (I was looking at this so I could supply a highway starting point to get local directions.)

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[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Spammers are a royal pain. I just had to unsubscribe from some Israel Daily Alert list I keep getting subscribed to at maintainer -at scjfaq.org (I don't subscribe to it; someone keeps subscribing me, probably by spamming the majordomo server).