From: %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:54:15 +0100

Huge  wrote:

> On 2007-04-22, Graham Murray  wrote:
> > "Alan Holmes"  writes:
> >
> >> I've been using OE for about 35 years and never ever had any trouble with
> >> it.
> >
> > On what hardware and OS? The IBM PC was launched in 1981, 26 years
> > ago. Windows was later than that, and it was even later that Windows had
> > a native TCP/IP stack.
> 
> Holmes is an idiot. Killfile and forget.

Given the people who read and post to this group, "idiot" seems hardly
adequate as a description. If Holmes had been using ARPANET when Holmes
claims to have been using ARPANET then he would have been known to some
of us. Because back then the number of people with access was a slack
handful, many of them in Computer Science laboratories, most of them in
the US military, not more than a handful in UK institutions.

Not of course that I need to tell you this.

He reminds me of the serial fantasist "Internet Engineer" who made
similar claims about a decade ago and who was shot down in flames in
consequence. And of course he was shown to have lied about his
qualifications and he had to run off and have a degree bought for him in
a misplaced attempt to save his face.

I'm still amused by someone tryng to claim that they have been using OE
for over 35 years. Time machines must be cheap in some corners of the
universe.