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While I appreciate that you would have disguised the question had your motives been impure, you have to consider your audience. Our experience is that new people wander in here on a weekly -- and sometimes daily -- basis, boldly asking some pretty dubious questions, ranging in type from the barely disguised "please do my homework for me" to "how can I use Perl to h4x0r orbital satellites".

Until you've established a reputation here (and you do seem off to a good start), it's not reasonable to expect people to assume that your motives are pure. Particularly with questions that suggest spamming.

Think of Checkov in the "Save the Whales" Star Trek movie, stopping a policeman on the street to ask "Can you direct me to your nooklear vwesselz?"

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Hmmm... thx for the insight
by yojimbo (Monk) on Mar 23, 2001 at 00:44 UTC
    Thanks for taking the time to put me in the picture (and thanks also to "extreme"). I've spoken to a few people here about how the posting does press the wrong buttons - that "nospam" style email address is a bad example (although, believe it or not, some people do choose to enter that even though they're not required to sign up to the list).

    Anyway, next time I post something which looks a bit suspect I'll put in some background as well.