Yes good idea. Of course the testing and issuing would have to be contracted
out to a company without any proper experience, who will do it for a
ridiculously low price by paying the testers the absolute minimum, thus
demotivating them and ensuring the worst possible service. Is that more or
less what you had in mind?

"Dave" <dwickford@yahoo.com> wrote in message

Administrated by whom and to help with what problem?

moo

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This seemed good idea at the time but have you so much confidence in them
when you know they are also gained by those with severe learning
difficulties who habitually pick their noses when operating etc!
Whilst we are told that A levels are worth nothing much these days what
can these be worth?
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Big Bertha Thing invite
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/invite.html
Access page to 55K Zip File
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.politics.bush

301 files from the third battle of cyberspace. (part two)

60 Newsgroup postings were deleted, after 15 hours.
There were claims of major hacker attack,
which turned to abashed embarassment.

It turned out that the NSP owner,
had sent out a world-wide posting.
It invited all users, who had forgotten their passwords,
to just leave it blank. Then a new confirmation password
would be sent. Cinderela was invited to the ball.

Thank you,
Tony Lance

Big Bertha Thing format

Anybody heard of the fly-paper trap?
Where all the flies are collected, in an unsightly mess,
hanging from the kitchen ceiling.
The expensive version is the lizard with a long tongue,
that retracts after each catch.

Take an uncensored version of a usenet newsgroup,
show the subject line of each thread header,
with the total number of postings and the net
number of postings after extracts.
Put the total number of extracts, in the first line,
at the top of the list of postings.
Anyone wishing to search the extracts clicks on it
and finds each person extracted with 2 lines each.
The first line shows the number of thread headers
and the second the number of replies.
Further clicks go down to posting level.

Extract everyone with more than 1000 postings
on any single newsgroup, from all newsgroups.

Examples of the fly-paper trap can be found on:-
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/news.html
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/want04.html
Thank you,
Tony Lance
tonylance@beeb.net

Big Bertha Thing rim

News from the Asian Rim front.
1. The basic mailing list has 2000 mailboxes. (two-way)
2. The rate of increase is 400 mailboxes per 6 weeks.
3. This gives 4000 mailboxes in 8 months time.
4. The 4th Battle of Cyberspace began on 21st October 2002.
5. There are 2000 new Yahoo mailboxes per 6 weeks. (one-way)
6. Each one has a Big Bertha Thing posting inside it.
7. These are not 2000 world-wide.
8. They are not even 2000 in english.
9. They are 2000 Asian Rim non-english.
10. The 8 months target is 10,000 Yahoo mailboxes closed.
11. The Big Bertha Thing web site shows that one field
     of interest is spam attack strategic studies.
12. In theory the first three battles were unwinnable too.
13. The targets of all these mailboxes are newsgroup users.
14. Off-topic postings for the benefit of newsgroups are
     considered to be on-topic.
15. Shi Tao got 10 years for email about China after Yahoo
     named him to them. (see http)
http://www.out-law.com/page-6482

Big Bertha Thing SMTP

My paid email service provider (SP) is still a SMTP SP, but only just.
1. An infraction happened in July 2005.
2. The second infraction of the SMTP protocol began in September 2005.
3. Prior to July 2005, a limit of 600 postings per day was set, for every
     5 mailboxes. (2004 AD)
4. 500 posting per hour was also set, which gives an average of 100 per mailbox.
5. Any postings exceeding these limits were not sent.
6. Notification of all email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
7. This was in full accordance with the official SMTP protocol.
8. In July 2005, a posting was sent from 1 of the 5 mailboxes to another.
9. The TO: mailbox filtered the FROM: mailbox posting and it was not sent,
     neither were the copies. (Fixed July)
10. No notification of the email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
11. Previously the same posting worked normally as per SMTP.
12. In September 2005, all outgoing emails were filtered by subject line and
     not sent. (Fixed October) See error message below.
13. No notification of the email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
14. There appears to be two incompatible pieces of software, one of which does
     not comply with the SMTP protocol.
15. These two lack of notifications invalidate the whole purpose of the SMTP
     protocol.

Online Error Occurred.
Sending Email Message "Re: Big Bertha Thing blogs"
Reason: Error Reported by Server 451
       Delivery Resource Unavailable (dm16.43286880.143cee)

Big Bertha Thing german

Warning on the The Rosary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory book, by Susan Tassone.
(Warning on the Pray the Rosary booklet by divinemercy.org)
1. This supports a meditation for each Hail Mary.
2. This excludes 3 minutes meditation on each decade.
3. The Simple Prayer Book by CTS gives 10 straight Hail Marys.
4. The CTS version fulfills most requirements for a Plenary Indulgence.
5. This Indulgence can get a Holy Soul out of Purgatory.
6. St. Dominic taught 10 straight Hail Marys.
7. St. Louis-Marie de Montfort taught 10 straight Hail Marys.
8. How can a book for Holy Souls not mention Plenary Indulgences?
9. St. Bernadette of Lourdes would not remember 200 meditations.
10. The Legion of Mary has issued warnings about the meditation for each
     Hail Mary version.
11. This false version has been called the German Rosary.
12. It had an appalling effect on the rosary in Germany.
13. There is no Plenary Indulgence on this false version.
14. The sponsers have a devotion to Padre Pio.
15. Can they quote Padre Pio as being in favour of a meditation for each
     Hail Mary?

Thank you,
Tony Lance