An additional guideline is dateless. Any alert that doesn't
have a date within is probably out of date and should be ignored.
Padgett writes:
| Now, what does this have to do with FIREWALLS ? Well one thing immediately:
| you can't trust the net - if we could, no-one would need a firewall. Second,
| some protection is better than none. In the future, I have no doubt that
| attempts will be made to discredit people/things in an attempt to have them
| removed. So some guidelines:
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| 1) If it is faceless, it is probably baseless. (catchy, eh ?) This morning,
| the Fred Basset strip showed the value of a tip received from a tout in
| a bar who knew the second cousin of the jockey's girlfriend. I always
| liked Chico's method in _A Day At The Races_.
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