Re: The Death of PBM

From: spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <37d67d12.16809640@news.dial.pipex.com>, nospam@here.please
(Evilb) wrote:

> Also, so what if ppl decide to be anon in their postings ?
>
> "You talk real big from an anonymous address in an anonymous place."
>
> What are you going to do, fly over and beat the guy up ?
>
> clink, clink.

What's even more amusing is that the email address is a perfectly valid
one.  You'd be surprised how *little* SPAM you get if you used a *valid*
email address which has 'spam' as part of it.  ;)  All the SPAMmer's
scripts that gather email addresses from UseNet postings assume that your
address is invalid and discard it.  Heh, heh, heh...

Of course, one would actually need to have a flexible and adaptive
approach to the use of email addresses in order to think of something like
that, which is probably why Steve didn't work it out.

I'm wondering what 'anonymous place' I reside in, though...  Metropolitan
Internet Services exists, the .net.au domain space exists, and Australia
also exists.  Hmmm...  Ah, well - I think Steve must have experienced a
segmentation fault on his version of reality and core dumped.

...
[steve@madhouse /dev/null]# tail -3 /var/log/messages
...
Sep  9 00:37:49 steve logic[704]: segmentation violation (1182665)
Sep  9 00:37:50 steve kernel: core dumped in /tmp/
Sep  9 00:37:53 steve kernel: respawning /root/reality/logic/1989.bak
...

He did say one thing, though:

>Lets assume you are the manufacturer of Pepsi Cola and some 14-year old
>geek from High School comes along and says he can make a better cola.
>He hasn't ever made a drink before.  He hasn't tasted cola in six years,
>but he knows how to do it because he tasted Fanta and Schnapple once and
>hell... they're drinks too!   His list of ingredients includes several
>poisons and household spiders.  How seriously do YOU take him?
>
>Now if the same kid came back when he was thirty with several degrees
>and a successful background of drink-manufacture under his belt I'd be
>inclined to give him some respect.  Until then, claims that you are
>going to make the ''greatest drink ever'' aren't going to impress
>anybody very much, now are they?

Steve obviously hasn't paid much attention to history, where the movers
and shakers of the world have all been drop-outs from conventional
education systems and flew by the seat of their pants.

Example #1:  Bill Gates.  Dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to found
Microsoft because he got sick of being spoon-fed the same-old-same-old by
the establishment.  Now worth how many hundred billion?

And just to even things up, Example #2:  Steve Jobs' job pitch to John
Sculley (then the #2 man at PepsiCo) to join Apple:  "Do you want to spend
the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to
change the world?"

It's real simple:  If you want to create something *special*, then the
only thing you need to do is STOP listening to conventional wisdom.  STOP
listening to the veterans of this newsgroup.  All they are going to tell
you is what you *can't* do.

Sure, the chances are that you'll fail.  Sure, your grand vision may never
be realised.  But at least you gave it a go, damnit!  At least you tried!
And who knows?  There is a non-zero chance that you'll succeed - and if
you do, then every smug, arrogant pratt that has ever doubted you and
tried to hold you back can, well, they can just kiss your arse!  Because
*you'll* be the man!  Don't do it because you can.  Don't do it because
you want to.  Do it because they said it couldn't be done.

To the victor, the spoils!

Henry.

References

Re: The Death of PBM
spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The Death of PBM
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The Death of PBM
nospam@here.please (Evilb)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: The Death of PBM
spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The Death of PBM
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The Death of PBM
nospam@here.please (Evilb)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000