One more LglBgl1@aol spam and I'm going to throw up
Sharon Fenick
about some on-line service.
Somehow, this is the one newgroup that I'm on that's just continually
targeted for specific spamming (all newsgroups get the usenet-wide spam,
obviously). What is it about pre-laws that people think we're easy
marks? Is it because we're supposed to be paranoid? Are we supposed
to be paranoid? Am I sounding paranoid? I'm not, am I?
Sharon
Dave Huntoon
certain authority ...
>Gee, three informational messages, all with the same information
>about some on-line service.
Hmmm . . . coincidence? Here's a coincidence for you - In Windows 3.1 or
3.11 type the initials "N.Y.C." in the symbol font "Wingdings." It comes up
as three symbols: Death (skull & cross bones), Jewish (Star of David), Good
(Thumbs up). Someone showed me this and I was shocked. Coincidence? Or is
Bill Gates Hitler's lost nephew?
>Somehow, this is the one newgroup that I'm on that's just continually
>targeted for specific spamming (all newsgroups get the usenet-wide spam,
>obviously).
I'm not sure about this group being targeted for spams, but it does seem to
be sort of magnet for free-advice seekers and paid-advice givers. I think
law students are seen as a fee-avoidance device for people who feel they
have a legal claim and are too cheap to call a real lawyer, and as a
research-avoidance device for law school prospectives and other
student-types writing law related articles who are too lazy to do their own
leg work, and as an ego/wallet-inflation device for attorneys who would like
us to believe they have somehow figured out a way for law students to avoid
learning the same lessons they learned in the same way they learned them.
I subscribe to none of the above, and would like to see the group limit
discussions to law school related topics, both serious and humorous.
Admissions questions are annoying, and usually can't be effectively answered
here anyway. Applicants should be speaking to admissions offices and
reading law school guides, not persistently dragging this group back to the
same old LSAT / "Which school should I go to?" crap. This is a boil that
seems to refill as quickly as it can be lanced.
>What is it about pre-laws that people think we're easy
>marks?
I guess people who are not yet in law school would be "pre-laws," but
because I have attended law school but have not yet passed the bar, I
consider myself a "law-ette." I guess we are perceived to be loaded with
money and worried about school. I am neither, and think nervous 1L2B's
should not spend a dime before they have started law school and taken a good
look at what they really might need. Applicants should only use the library
oand not waste money either. But I know some people disagree here.
>Is it because we're supposed to be paranoid? Are we supposed
>to be paranoid? Am I sounding paranoid? I'm not, am I?
Sharon, we have been watching you for some time to determine if you are
paranoid. This message will go in your file under "mental fitness
requirements." Don't be alarmed. We do it for everyone.