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Platitude in the mouth of doggerel.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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You are totally and utterly unique.
Just like everyone else. 
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Given enough time, anything is possible.
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Message Closed
modified 8-Feb-16 12:44pm.
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My goodness, what will they think up next?
This is going to revolutionise IT, someone is going to make billions out of this idea 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Of which idea? Spamming CodeProject? Unfortunately there is nothing new about it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I take it you didn't follow the link?
Whoever removed the post didn't follow the link either or does not understand satire - it was a satirical site pointing out that your own personal pc can be used as your'cloud' backup service.
[Edit]
Turns out that it was spam, see my recent post[^] - my mistake 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 10-Feb-16 2:01am.
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Why should I? If OP meant to post a joke it would be labeled that way!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The whole point of satire is that one does not point out that it is a joke - that's what makes something satirical.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So you follow every link presented to you online? Hmmm... Very interesting...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Just a second I am busy dealing with a virus on my computer
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Just joined last week and first post a link to an external site with what appears to be spam? Not a great start and just asking to be nuked - and yes, I'm one of those who voted spam on the account and post.
This space for rent
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Why should I?
Did you flag it as SPAM? If you did, then of course you should follow the link. It's irresponsible to flag as SPAM without actually knowing if it is SPAM.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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But to be honest I can understand those who did report the post - it had all the signs of a stupid spam...
I tried to stop reporting the member, but was too late... Fortunately we can fix it, by asking the staff the reverse history...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 8-Feb-16 9:52am.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: it had all the signs of a stupid spam
For me, that makes marking the post as SPAM understandable; but to kick the person off this site (by marking the account as SPAM) seems way overkill for something like this.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Those two are follow almost automatically (and in case of a spammer rightfully) - in this case it was misinterpreted and for that I will ask to reinstall the member (what I would not do in case of real spammer)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The problem is that marking a forum post as spam is also reporting the account.
I forget this sometimes like in this case.
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I did not think that was the case. Are you certain? Or guessing? Doesn't really matter in the end, just curious.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You will find my name among those that closed the account. But I reported only the post and not the account.
I recognised this some time ago when reporting real spam and found the account to be closed already including my name when trying to report that too.
But this seems to apply to forum posts only as far as I know (not to Q&A posts).
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Interesting.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So, you have an email that you think is spam but your email client hasn't caught it. Do you follow it? Do you let the spammer know that there's rich pickings there?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Do you follow it?
Nope. But I also don't report it as SPAM unless it is.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So you leave it to others to do the heavy lifting and dirty work for you. Don't get upset at those of who do that work for you then.
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