Mentioned maybe a month ago was that I put my “naked” email address in the footer of the web site, enabling “one click” to initiate email contact.<\/p>\n
Give it a try \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n
When the mailto: link is clicked it pretypes the beginning of the message as
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\nHello Owner of Streaming Radio Guide,<\/p>\n
I would like to…
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\nEven with that cl00, I’m still getting emails like “Hey, loved that song you played at 8:32 am – can you tell me what the name is?”<\/p>\n
Of course, I’m flooded with “partnership” requests from advertising sites in India, but that i expected.<\/p>\n
So how can I make it more clear? Back in the days of Usenet, there was a running joke of the “standard” form that was sent to people who obviously had no idea what they were doing.<\/p>\n
Here is an example from the C message group #ifdef HUMOR_IMPAIRED Dear: I took exception to your recent post to (newsgroup)___comp.lang.c___.<\/p>\n It was (check all that apply):<\/p>\n ___ Stupid. You are being flamed because:<\/p>\n ___ What you posted\/said has been done before. We looked at the source you posted and were disgusted because<\/p>\n ___ You mentioned ___ nonstandard library function(s). Regarding Standard C we are deeply shocked that<\/p>\n ___ You said that since your nonstandard feature\/function is supported by The net.police has found the following violations of netiquette:<\/p>\n ___ Your post contained commercial advertising. Oh yeah, and while we’re at it:<\/p>\n ___ Your .sig is ridiculous because (check all that apply): Furthermore:<\/p>\n ___ You have greatly misunderstood the purpose of ___comp.lang.c___. <\/block><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mentioned maybe a month ago was that I put my “naked” email address in the footer of the web site, enabling “one click” to initiate email contact. Give it a try \ud83d\ude42 When the mailto: link is clicked it pretypes … Continue reading
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\n STANDARDIZED BONEHEAD REPLY FORM
\n comp.lang.c version
\n (original by David Parsons)
\n (modified by David Fetter and Kurt Schumacher)
\n (comp.lang.c bits by Alan Curry)
\n (even more comp.lang.c bits by Jens Schweikhardt)<\/p>\n
\n ISO 9899:1990 states in the ‘as-if rule’:
\n Every line checked with an ‘X’ must be
\n read as if followed by a smiley \ud83d\ude42
\n#endif<\/p>\n
\n ___ Klewless Wonder ___ Lamer ___ Spammer
\n ___ Password cracker wannabe ___ Terminal junkie ___ BorlandBoy
\n ___ Netcruiser idiot ___ Troll ___ Moron
\n ___ Warez kiddie ___ Loser ___ Newbie
\n ___ Homework cheater ___ ME-TOOer ___ Kook<\/p>\n
\n___ Boring.
\n___ Much longer than any worthwhile thought of which you may be capable.<\/p>\n
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ Not only that, it was also done better the last time.
\n___ Your post\/letter was a pathetic imitation of ____________________.
\n (net.personality)
\n___ Your post\/mail originated on ___ FidoNet
\n ___ Delphi
\n ___ AOL
\n ___ Compuserve
\n ___ Prodigy
\n ___ MSN
\n___ You posted using Netscape.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ And it turned your post into a mini-spam of ___ identical posts.
\n ___ And it failed to insert a newline between the quoted text and
\n your original text.
\n___ Your post was in HTML.
\n ___ Which was appended to the ASCII version.
\n___ You posted without reading the FAQ.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ You asked a question listed in the FAQ’s index.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ You matched it word for word.
\n___ You posted an IAQ.
\n___ You answered an IAQ.
\n ___ Like in the IAQ itself.
\n___ Your answer is a candidate for the IAQ.
\n___ You posted an obvious homework assignment.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ Without even trying to hide it.
\n ___ Your attempt to hide it as a contest failed.
\n ___ Miserably.
\n___ You suggested that posting without reading the FAQ should be tolerated.
\n___ You suggested that a moderated comp.lang.c should be created.
\n___ Your post referred to the newsgroup as a Board, BBoard, BBS, or Notesfile.
\n___ You posted a chain letter.
\n___ You posted a “YOU ALL SUCK” message.
\n___ You suck.
\n___ You posted a job offer.
\n___ You posted a “test” in a non-test newsgroup.
\n___ You posted a binary file to a non-binary newsgroup.
\n___ You posted in comp.lang.c because
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ comp.std.c didn’t answer your off-topic post.
\n ___ The moderators of comp.lang.c.moderated rejected it.
\n___ You posted C++ code to a C group.
\n (Mark only if above also)
\n ___ And your C++ code was pathetically wrong.
\n ___ You claim that C is a subset of C++.
\n ___ You claim that C++ is a superset of C.
\n ___ All of the above.
\n___ You bitched about being told to take your OS-specific questions to an
\n OS-specific group.
\n___ You fell for a troll\/flamebait.
\n ___ On April 1st.
\n___ You do not know how to recognize sarcasm\/irony\/humor.
\n ___ Even when you’ve been told or warned.
\n___ You bragged about your reputation as a C guru among all your other
\n Borlandite friends.
\n___ You asked for flash.c, nuke.c, or another destructive program\/script.
\n___ You flamed someone for flaming newbies.
\n___ You suggested that we be nice to newbies.
\n___ You were grumpy for no reason at all.
\n___ You were nice where you should have been grumpy.
\n___ Your post\/letter was an obvious forgery.
\n ___ It was done clumsily.
\n___ You have a lame login name.
\n___ Your machine has a stupid name.
\n___ You posted an original article\/letter with no new text and no quoted text.
\n___ You quoted an article\/letter in followup and only added ___ lines
\n of text.
\n___ You quoted an article in followup and only added the line “Me, too!!!”
\n___ You asked for replies via email because you “don’t read this group”.
\n___ You flamed someone who has been around far longer than you.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ One of the Holy Trinity
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ Dan
\n ___ Peter
\n ___ Lawrence
\n___ You quoted authorities in a false attempt to prove your point
\n ___ One of the other Holy Trinity
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ Clive D. W.
\n ___ Tanmoy
\n ___ Doug
\n ___ and said authority feels ashamed to be misused this way.
\n___ You haven’t grasped a detailed explanation.
\n ___ Not even when brought to you by Steve Summit.
\n ___ Not even after a private email lesson by Steve.
\n___ You sided with
\n ___ Scott Nudds
\n ___ Some other net.nuisance named _________________.
\n___ You suggested micro-optimizations.
\n ___ And asserted that ++i; is faster than i = i + 1;<\/p>\n
\n (Mark all that apply)
\n ___ getch(), getche()
\n ___ clrscr()
\n ___ kbhit()
\n ___ bzero(), bcopy()
\n ___ strdup(), strcasecmp(), stricmp(), strnicmp(), or strncasecmp()
\n ___ FindFirst() and\/or FindNext()
\n ___ PC BIOS calls
\n ___ Other _____________________.
\n___ You mentioned ___ nonstandard language features:
\n (Mark all that apply)
\n ___ void main
\n ___ int32, u_int16, etc.
\n ___ inline functions
\n ___ asm(), __asm__(), etc.
\n ___ far pointers
\n ___ fork
\n ___ Other _____________________.
\n___ You mentioned ___ nonstandard headers:
\n (Mark all that apply)
\n ___
\n ___
\n ___
\n ___
\n ___ Other _____________________.
\n___ You mentioned ___ OS specific features:
\n (Mark all that apply)
\n ___ DLLs
\n ___ shared libraries
\n ___ interrupts
\n ___ processes
\n ___ serial communications
\n ___ printers
\n ___ threads
\n ___ Other ___________________________________.
\n___ It was not formatted in the 1TBS (One True Brace Style).
\n___ It invokes ___ instantiations of undefined behaviour.
\n___ All of this could have been easily avoided by
\n ___ Compiling the rubbish in strict ANSI mode before posting.
\n ___ Not supressing the compilation warnings.
\n ___ Using lint.
\n ___ Adding the maths library at link time.<\/p>\n
\n both Borland *and* Microsoft, it should be considered standard.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ And you prohibited MSN from carrying your post.
\n___ You misquoted from or made false claims about ISO 9899:1990.
\n ___ Because you quoted someone else’s misquote.
\n ___ You never read it.
\n ___ You quoted from the Schildt version including the fly specks.
\n ___ You haven’t look at Amendment One and TCs.
\n___ Your question is based on the assumption that stdout is a screen and
\n stdin is a keyboard.
\n___ Your question is based on the assumption that all computers *have*
\n screens and keyboards.<\/p>\n
\n THE FINE FOR THIS IS $20. Please remit immediately to:
\n Usenet News
\n Network Security & Standards Patrol
\n 3 Cielo Vista Terrace
\n Monterey, CA 93940
\n or your posting privileges will be canceled.
\n___ Your post\/letter contained numerous spelling errors.
\n___ Your post\/letter contained multiple grammatical errors.
\n___ YOUR POST CONTAINED EXCESSIVE CAPITALIZATION AND\/OR PUNCTUATION!!!!!
\n___ Your post contains
\n ___ MIME encoded
\n ___ uuencoded
\n ___ otherwise encoded (please specify: ___________)
\n ___ C source.
\n ___ C++ source.
\n ___ core dumps.
\n ___ screen shots.
\n___ You quoted an article\/letter in followup and added no new text.
\n___ You quoted an empty article.
\n ___ And it was a followup.
\n ___ To your own article.
\n ___ And it’s *still* empty. Nerd.
\n___ Your lines are 80 columns wide or wider.
\n___ You failed to check the “Followups-To:” line.
\n___ Your .sig is longer than four lines.
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ And your newsreader truncated it.<\/p>\n
\n ___ You listed ___ snail mail address(es).
\n (Mark only if above checked)
\n ___ You listed a nine-digit ZIP code.
\n ___ You listed ___ phone numbers for people to use in prank calls.
\n ___ You included a stupid disclaimer.
\n ___ You included:
\n (Mark all that apply)
\n ___ A stupid self-quote.
\n ___ A stupid quote from a net.nobody.
\n ___ Lame ASCII graphic(s) (Choose all that apply):
\n ___ USS Enterprise
\n ___ Australia
\n ___ The Amiga logo
\n ___ Company logo
\n (Mark only if above also)
\n ___ And you stated that you don’t speak for your employer.
\n ___ Bicycle
\n ___ Bart Simpson
\n ___ Sleeping cat
\n ___ Kilroy<\/p>\n
\n (newsgroup)
\n___ Your post contains the following instantiations of bogosity:
\n ___ “Works for me”
\n ___ When in fact it doesn’t.
\n ___ “Hope this helps”
\n ___ When it’s hopeless.
\n___ I don’t like your tone of voice.
\n___ You must have spent your entire life in a skinner box to be this clueless.
\n___ *plonk*
\n___ This has been pointed out to you before.
\n___ It is recommended that you:
\n (Mark all that apply)
\n ___ Give up your idiot-friendly GUI account.
\n ___ Bust up your modem with a hammer and eat it.
\n ___ Jump into a bathtub while holding your monitor.
\n ___ Read the FAQ at http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~scs\/C-faq\/top.html
\n ___ And learn it by heart.
\n ___ Read the IAQ.
\n ___ And learn it by heart.
\n ___ Clue yourself about C at http:\/\/www.lysator.liu.se\/c\/
\n ___ Answer the cl00 f0ne.
\n ___ Stick to FidoNet and come back when you’ve grown up.
\n ___ Stop reading Usenet news and get a life.
\n ___ Crawl back under the DOS box you slithered out of.
\n ___ Get a real computer.
\n ___ Get a real OS.
\n ___ Get a real compiler.
\n ___ Give us a break.
\n ___ Be Guest of Honor in alt.flame for a week.<\/p>\n