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Mar 2, 2001, 12:55am

For those of us that don't land in the gate anymore...

Immigration Officer: Welcome to the Gateway ! New features in 3.1 at
www.activeworlds.com/help/aw31/ - Warning, do NOT accept executable files
from people you have recently met, or do not know, this is the main cause of
password theft - do NOT "test" bots for strangers

Four letters can be said about this. L O F L

Mar 2, 2001, 2:30am

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Exactly - it *is* laughable, but, do you know how many newbie I get every
week who are tricked into something like that?

You can say it a hundred times, you can post it, put it in helpfiles, and
everything, but people still get deceived.....so I ahd to put something
right in peoples faces - dealing with people that are "hacked" is one of the
parts of the job that I really dislike, because I have to actually explain
to them that someone they trusted really was only out to get them.

So..thus the warnings - I hope they help those kinds of people.

Facter.

Mar 2, 2001, 9:27pm

I think in some ways we all forget the first time we entered this type on
environment. Its strange, diffrent and exciting.

As a newbie myself many many years ago in a diffrent environment I was so
conned, for want of a better word. Lets remember that newbies are like fish
out of water and can be so confused and trusting regarding the facilities
that are on offer.
If AW did not warn them about the sections of our community that would abuse
a newbie, who will.

Yes for us more experenced users it is rather a pointless message, but is is
aimed at newbies.

The Wizard Myrddin

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