Re: Current status of Ada?

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

On 2007-09-17, Lou wrote:

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Welcome.

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|"4. I'm rather hesitant to make this post, as it appears that it is            |
|going to expose my e-mail address to the whole world. If this is not           |
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That email address has been exposed. You could have followed advice
from
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/munging-address/
or simply not have bothered to provide a real email address in the
newsgroup post. Now it is too late. You could try to cancel the
newsgroup post but many newsservers will not allow you to
cancel. However no matter what you do, that email address will
probably be sent a lot of unwanted emails while it still exists as you
have exposed it to Usenet. E.g. a spare email address which appears
nowhere on the publicly accessible Internet (except for newsgroup
archives (though the only news:comp.lang.ada archives on the Internet
do not expose email addresses)) which I disclosed in only two
newsgroup posts ever (both in 2002) still receives unwanted emails. A
summary of some of the emails received by that email address in early
September 2007 is:
"Score From Subject Date Actions
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Sat 01/09 11:28 | [ Deliver | Whitelist |
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03/09 15:29 | [ Deliver | Whitelist | Delete ]
16.74 | "Harry Logan" <loxh... | Can you imagine that you are hea... |
Mon 03/09 15:16 | [ Deliver | Whitelist |
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Sat 01/09 9:47 | [ Deliver | Whitelist |
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18.99 | "Van Dixon" <a30tak... | ipf81z | Mon 03/09 1:31 | [ Deliver |
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19.29 | "Rachael Castle" <c... | ln4vuq | Sun 02/09 9:11 | [ Deliver |
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| Whitelist | Delete ]
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Wed 05/09 17:42 | [ Deliver | Whitelist |
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Whitelist | Delete ]
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16:14 | [ Deliver | Whitelist | Delete ]
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Mon 03/09 2:28 | [ Deliver | Whitelist |
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24.79 | "Trina Montano" <ra... | buy now Viagra 60mg x 30 pills | Sun
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]".

You seem to be a newcomer to ideas of newsgroups. Perhaps some of
the following will inform you further...
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/
;
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part2/
;
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/usenet/welcome/part1/
;
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/
;
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/usenet/faq/part1/
;
WWW.Anta.net/misc/nnq/how-it-works.shtml
;
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/news-newusers-intro/
; and
WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/news-announce/introduction/part1/
.

Do you believe that a hyperlink to an Ada email list should be
accompanied by providing insight into what emails are, or that a
hyperlink to an Ada website should be accompanied by providing insight
into what HTML is?

Sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster