Troll e-mails from DON Davenport, blown highlights

[dave_wilson1]

<p>I received and reported to administrator what appears to be a troll e-mail, titled in red, "ur ignorant comments on blown whites", and then a bunch of derrogatory dribble about blown highlights etc. . He has no forum participation, signed on the other day April 9, and has 30 hits on his name. So obviously he's just sending out e-mails. Did anyone else get one? I didn't respond to e-mail, because then they would get my regular e-mail I guess, so be careful.</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>Not here, so far. But, then, I haven't made any ignorant comments on blown whites... ;-)</p>

<p>(Sorry, Dave, couldn't resist.)</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>I noticed, Dave, that in your post above, you left some extra white space between "etc" and "He" - and that really messes with the overall visual tone of your comment. Ur makin ur post 2 brite and blew out ur punctuation. :-)</p>

[dave_wilson1]

<p>I'm sorry Matt, I did use a spot meter, IDK what happened. William 8-)))))))</p>

[ann_overland]

<p>Is it possible that he now can have a tracking cookie from that email?</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>No, Ann. PN's messaging system doesn't use cookies that are then handed through some sneaky back channel to the person who generated the message. There's no mechanism for that. Use the messaging system yourself, so you can see how it's set up.<br /><br />Regardless, a cookie does no good for someone who wants to spot a familiar person/browser unless the person doing the surfing proceeds on to some web site that's been set up to check for that <em>exact same cookie</em>. And the cookie has to be issued from the <em>same server</em> that does the checking again, later - you can't use one server to inspect a cookie issued by some other server (that's the whole point).<br /><br />This is why cookies simply aren't that big a deal in drive-by situations like that. You can completely ignore them, unless you actually start wandering off to visit web sites run by the same person that launched the message. Spammy people using forum message relaying just aren't a worry in that respect.<br /><br />People who do worry can simply set up their browsers to only allow cookies that they specifically permit. As you <em>already know</em>. Are you worried that William isn't sufficiently worried about a troll?</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>What, me worry?</p>

[joshroot]

<p>Just ignore that. It's from someone who doesn't understand what "blown whites" mean. He/she posts the same drivel all over the internet. See here:</p>

<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6psf2lp"><strong>http://tinyurl.com/6psf2lp</strong></a></p>

<p>I've banned him/her. Anyone else who gets more of this, let me know.</p>

[dave_wilson1]

<p>Wow... Can't see from the tears! (and it's "blown whites")</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>Verrry inter-esting, Thanks for the link Josh. Whole new areas have opened up before me....</p>

[david_schilling___chicago_]

<p>I got one.....I just ignored it, didn't make much sense. However, blown highlights is a serious issue to some :-)</p>

[joshroot]

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<p>Wow... Can't see from the tears! (and it's "blown whites")</p>

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<p>Errrrr......yeah. It is.</p>

<p>I'm going to go ahead and fix that. Lord knows I don't need to make myself look any more silly.</p>