"~BD~" <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:rJmdnZ0aQ9RQt-PRnZ2dnUVZ7vudnZ2d@bt.com...
> On 01/09/2010 10:02, Li wrote a message *very* early in the morning!
>
>> <SIGH>
>>
>> "~BD~" <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:nbGdnbHLUduhZuDRnZ2dnUVZ8hOdnZ2d@bt.com...
>>> On 14/01/2010 01:31, LovelyLady wrote:
>>>
>>>>> "Grybeard" <grybear...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:jde5l0GTGHA.4276@GAMERA.annex.com...
>>>>
>>>>> *Reckon he finally figured it out?*
>>
>> Have you figured it out yet, that you are NOT wanted on AnnexCafe?
>
> Oh yes - I realise that!
>
> It's not a case of "I want to be allowed to post on Annexcafe" - more
> a question of *why* did some folk there not want to answer my
> searching questions? (no, I don't mean detailed personal information.
> In the main, questions concerning malware!)
>
> The last time I looked the UK U2U group appeared dead and almost
> unused. Why is that, Li? Why keep /that/ group yet close
> Scorched-Earth and MainStreet?
>
>>>> Is it a safe place for others to go to get help with their
>>>> computers?
>>
>> Never for you, Admiral.
>
> Avoidance!
>
> Has anyone from alt.privacy.spyware *ever* gone there for hep/advice?
>
> Maybe they are more wary than me and will not be too happy to connect
> their computer to a private server.
>
> Doing so would breach a firewall - wouldn't it?

Define "breach".

....one of my pet peeves since Katrina caused levees to "fail" *after*
having been breached. The terminology was causing real problems (as was
the term "refugees" which doesn't mean what those afflicted thought it
meant)

I tend to think of 'breach of purpose' - and the purpose of a firewall
is *not* to protect you from things that you invite in. In a dam for
instance - if the purpose is to regulate a certain amount of water
(flood control dam), and the water exceeds that amount and goes down the
spillway, it is breached (no longer able to regulate) but has not failed
because the water is now out-of specs. The spillways are there so that a
breach does not result in failure and the release of the water it was
storing.