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Dude,
Sending binaries to a mailing list is "ultimate strokery".
Jeff


Christian Gerzner wrote:

> Folks,
>
> At the risk of being flamed off this list I have to confess that
> yesterday I actually *bought*, as in purchased, outlayed dollars, spent
> money on, a copy of the Oz equivalent of the US "Skin Diver", here
> called "Sportdiving".
>
> In defense of Sportdiving I have to suggest that it is actually better
> (FWTIW) than Skin Diver. But not by much.
>
> I did this in the interests of "research" and thusly I have attached a
> scan (in PDF) of page 27 of this rag, whoops I mean magazine of course.
> This requires Adobe Acrobat Reader and if you do not have it (and IMHO I
> think you should) you can download it for free from
> <http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html>.
>
> There has previously been some discussion on this List regarding the
> subject matter mostly, shall we say, of a scathing nature.
>
> Understandably so, I would have thought, considering this advertisement.
>
> My own observation is that I really hope that most Oz divers, the real
> ones anyway, will see straight through this piece of convoluted
> Bullshit. My second observation is that there is _nevertheless_ still a
> sucker born every minute ... and probably more often than that. Sad,
> isn't it!
>
> Would some kind person please FW this to the Cavers list if deemed
> appropriate?
>
> Cheers, Seasons Greetings (Bah! Humbug!), and please excuse the
> bandwidth,
>
> Christian
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                          Name: Ultimate Stupidity
>    Ultimate Stupidity    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>                      Encoding: base64

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