It stands for "Off Topic" meaning that the post has nothing to do with
epilepsy or the subect header. Of course, that's no guarantee that a
post is on topic if it doesn't have an OT. :-)

Bob

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  I expect then in 2? weeks the New U.S. President will be in a Plane to
get the Troll dens to comply with the U.S. Canspam standard?     I can
hardly wait for that..  where will the louts go to post their junk about
innocent people they've captured, trying to help their civilians?

You don't really in your *wildest dreams expect APNIC or other International
Trolls, Scum or spammers to care about 'new anti-spam standards'  set
anywhere, much less in N.America do you?
   Why would the 300th 'Rolex for sale advert.'   start using html or other
code instead of plain text in the last 2 days?  And **who is Buying any of
this junk they supposedly sell?
   Show me someone who'd give an unsolicited stranger  their charge card
no. online, and I'll show you someone looking for Identity theft or fraud
against their credit line.   I'd also like to see what a 'genuine replica
Rolex' IS exactly.

  I don't know why you'd think  M.soft is to blame-> if they started
discarding all mails that had a listed address different from the Real
Sender, 80% of the posters HERE would get discarded in transit from their
using 'removethis' or 'delete this' within their Email addresses to try keep
the trash out.  M.soft  have no control which other networks the message
bundles are routed through, to get to the Target Addressee or Here -- that's
what makes (made?) the Internet faster and more reliable than sending the
whole message in one large Bucket, wasn't it?

 The Identity theft markets (that Julie started this thread with days ago),
are Big Business among crooks and thieves.  We've had 2 or 3 operations
closed here (Canada) in last ~4 months who had equipment to **Manufacture
new Charge Cards, complete with Holograms and imbedded codes from lost or
stolen cards that haven't been De-activated  yet by people not realizing
they had lost their's or that their 'carbons'  (stolen from stores who still
use those in their invoices)   hadn't been shredded before discarding.

  Some of above might have changed (wrt. M.soft) -- I can't comment on
whether they do or don't have a monopoly on that.   The *new Windows XP
updates  (Service Pack 2) aren't available now to people who've bought
computers that had been preloaded with Stolen Win.XP-1 software.   How would
I know that?   The store I got this (2nd) system from is gone now,  and
M.soft have spent a *large amount of time helping check some things and
recommending fixes or what has to be **purchased to enable  stuff that won't
work beyond Service Pack 1.
  While some of that is Copyright and Income protection, I'm sure the rest
is to close up security issues that get discovered several times a week on
the newer code.    Cost to me will be about $300.  so far as I can tell.
  If they're (M.soft) spending this amount of time (20-25 minutes) with
Each customer who emails them about Failing Upgrades to Svc.Pack 2, on their
800 number (Phone Tolls paid by recipient company),  I rate them higher than
most of the Businesses I've dealt with in last 20 years.
  Maybe if  'Bill' sees this I'll get a Discount....  *I didn't know about
a Hologram Sticker on outside of **each XP computer, that matches the CD and
Manual (got neither) **registration number that's Same as above Sticker.

   But that's geek stuff too so that's why above subject was marked off
topic ...   It's to try help anyone else who might be about to buy a New
Computer with Win.XP so they know what to look for (on the computer case)
before they take it out of the store.        G./