[meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features

batkol batkol at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 22 18:40:05 EDT 2006


seems i misunderstood Darren's last email.  he sent me a very nice email off 
list explaining his point and i finally got it.  sorry all for my "duh, 
huh??" moment.
susan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "batkol" <batkol at sbcglobal.net>
To: <cynapse at charter.net>; "MeteoriteList" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features


>i was under the impression if you asked to copy someone's info, they 
>usually said yes.  if they did all the work, it seems to me it's common 
>courtesy to ask them first if you can use it to save the work, time, and/or 
>money it would take to gather the info yourself.    i don't think it's a 
>misuse of security issue at all.  just my $0.0000000000002.     take care
> susan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> To: "MeteoriteList" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:21:21 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
>
>
>>Registering is part of our computer world. Didn't you
>>register when you bought your PC
>
> Nope.
>
>>and regstered your
>>Windows software,
>
> Nope.
>
>>didn't you register at your web
>>provider ?
>
> Only because I have to.
>
> I haven't tried your site yet, so I'm not complaining about that (though 
> if you
> have to register just to view stuff at all, that is usually a sign for me 
> to
> move along from a site and not look back) but there is at least one 
> meteorite
> site that really annoys me.  I don't know which one it is off the top of 
> my
> head, but the person is so paranoid about not having some of the text 
> copied
> from their descriptions, they did something to the site that made it stop
> Windows from being able to use the clipboard while that site is open.  Not 
> just
> not copy from those pages, no other running program is able to copy or 
> paste
> anything, either.  If you have anything that you need to copy from any 
> program,
> you have to close down any browser windows showing that web site (and when 
> the
> problem started showing up every once in a while, it took me a while to 
> figure
> out what was happening).  THAT is what I consider an offensive use of
> "security".
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