[wp-forums] Any one braver than I?

[Christopher J. Hradil]

I was hoping to get a new computer out of the deal.  


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[mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of TechGnome
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Any one braver than I?

Ummmm, but that wouldn't have told me what happens when I click on it, now
would it? For all I knew it's was a Perl script that could have been
malicious in nature. The typical person out there isn't going to think about
right-click save as.... they'll just click. They are the ones I wanted to
make sure were going to be OK.

-tg
    

Les Bessant wrote:
> Ummmm, right-click, save target as....
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of TechGnome
>> Sent: 22 May 2006 20:56
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>> Subject: [wp-forums] Any one braver than I?
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>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/33097?replies=8#post-382782
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>> He's got a link to a pl (I assume Perl) script.... I'm a bit gun shy 
>> clicking on it as there's next to no indication as to what it does or 
>> what it will do when I get there.... any one have a system 
>> they would be 
>> willing to use to click on it? I'm going to mod the post at least to 
>> provide a warning that the content of the link us unverified and that 
>> people click the link at their own risk. At the same time, 
>> I'll ask the 
>> poster to update his post to provide more info and a zip/tar file 
>> instead of directly to the script.
>>
>> -tg
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