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Is this peermail a Wind-Up or genuine ? ...

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by older mycroft 1 view

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Out the blue, or more precisely the ether, I've just noticed this 'peermail' ...

[i]One of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:

From: vmorin@stockmanscasino.com
Subject: Dell overheating?
Message:
I have an older Dell insperion 6400 that runs for about an hour and then shuts down. I was thinking overheating but I can restart it right away and it will only run for a few minutes and then start the crazy actions before shut down. If I let it sit for several hours it will again run for about an hour and then shut down. During shut down the screen jumps and flashes and acts like I have pressed a key too many times and beeps. If I let it do this long enough (20 min)it will shut down. Generally I shut it down. I can not hear any fan running or feel any air moving. I have removed the screen and the Keyboard to get to the Fan and Heat sink to no avail. Am I on the right track with heat or could this be a fault of another kind. I have done a full restore on it with the same outcome. Any ideas?[/i]

Mmm... Well... ideas, eh?

[b]When was the last time you fried an egg??

If you cut off all the heat for a couple of minutes, do you notice that the egg returns to making the sound of an "egg frying" A LOT QUICKER THAN when you remove all heat for a couple of hours???!!![/b]

I did try to track 'vmorin' down on TR but since there's 2 of them, and I [u]never[/u] reply to unknown personal one-off emails anyway - I elected to post this question here for proper Open Discussion.

The Casino email address made me a bit twitchy too. ;)

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by the scummy one

a tool -- LOL :^0

I think they stopped sending to me (mostly) -- I am glad.

by oh smeg

Without the need of having to ask on a Public Forum. Glad I'm not the only one who gets this type of thing. :D

Col

by seanferd

Those who have been using the forum, but suddenly feel the need to PM someone, with absolutely no reference to the thread in question. Gee, I've got no idea what you're talking about.

And if you take the trouble to search for the TR username, sometimes you'll get "There is one result" or similar, but no clickable link to the profile.

by shellbot

I delete them immediatly..i don't fancy giving away my email address to people who can't bother to post on the site.

by rob miners

as I would prefer that they ask the question on TechRepublic and keep it in the pubic public eye. :D

It gives everyone a chance to earn a Thumb. ;)

by captbilly1eye

I specially dislike the ones that send peer mail rather than posting back to their original thread or the ones that resurrect a zombie and expect extra special help on a dead thread.

I use SpamBully to send them a fake MailDaemon message that my address is invalid. Then send them to the trash.

This is yet another reason why I keep pushing for the folks behind the scenes at TR to make peer mail truly 'Peer Mail' and add a filter option so we only get mail from those in our Contacts list.

...hoping but not holding my breath on that one.

by older mycroft

..don't quite know which way to fall with this post now, erm, eh ... :^0

by thumbsup2

I keep PM turned off because of the uninvited mail from people I don't know. I'll turn it back on IF and WHEN TR makes it a true "Peer Mail" function where only people I've listed in my contacts are able to contact me.

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