Yes, thank you for that insight.

That still leaves 10% then :-P

or maybe: "It's not what you do or how well you do it, it's who you do and how well you do him/her."

That's exactly what he did. He mailed it to a small group of experts and asked them for their comments. Some of them sent it on, commenting: "hey, this looks like a legit attempt", and before Vinay knew it, his article was on the web.

If you never open them, how do you know the pages look weird? Or did you mean to write "They all contain weird-looking links to pages which, of course, I never open"?

Anyway, I believe many of those work on a slightly different principle: not downloading an EXE but simply asking you to enter your MSN/hotmail password to be able to see the embarrassing pics in question... and then mailing /IM'ing themselves on.

What parent said. I voted "about the same"; some of my real-life social life has virtualised.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I already looked for it in the browser history but couldn't find it. Don't have the time to retype at the moment... next time, I'll write up the description in a text editor and copy-paste into the browser window. Frankly, I've had similar stuff happen before in a browser and should've learned this lesson already. Oh well.

This is the first time I'm submitting... but it looks like the description that I spent half an hour on typing is gone? Damn :-(

If I'd said NP-complete, I'd have said that there are plenty of NP-complete problems of which all instances can be solved in polynomial time, which is probably wrong :-) My statement is perfectly valid for the set NP, however.