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Subject: Re: sometimes you just never know ...

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 06:59:02 11/14/04

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On November 13, 2004 at 23:19:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 13, 2004 at 23:05:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2004 at 07:56:14, Martin Grabriel wrote:
>>
>>>On November 13, 2004 at 01:10:17, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>what you might get with  a google search
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>how about a free chess program , written by a woman who goes by the handle of
>>>>"HotBabe"?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.stauffercom.com/hotbabe/about.html
>>>>
>>>>includes source ...it's different ...
>>>>
>>>>(In case some of you do not catch on - this is a satire)
>>>
>>>the 63mb download link doesn't work - it just lead to the smaller file :)
>>
>>I understood from Mike Byrne that this is a satire that it is probably not a
>>chess program but I have no idea what it is.
>>
>>I was afraid from viruses so I did not try to run the software earlier but I
>>thought that Mike Byrne will not include a link for viruses so I decided to try
>>to run it now.
>>
>>When I tried to run it I get the following warning:
>>
>>The publisher could not be verified.
>>Are you sure you want to run this software.
>>
>>I read later:
>>This file does not have a valid digital signature that verifies its publisher
>>You should only run software from publishers you trust.
>>
>>I never got that warning when I ran chess software and I am too afraid from
>>viruses to try to run the program so I will probably never know what it is
>>about.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Inspite of it I decided to dowload the source code and it seems that this is a
>chess program inspite of the comment that it is a satire.

The author is a really a man, not a woman,there is no "hotbabe" and that is
where the satire comes in.

The whole page where the link is a "joke", .  The only thing true is that there
is a chess program there.


>
>I know nothing about the computer language that it is written(never see .e files
>but the content of the files talk about chess).
>
>Uri



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