# Re: Regards, Shodan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-regards-shodan/474699>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 27, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-regards-shodan/474699 "2008-11-27T14:00:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-regards-shodan/474699/13 "2008-11-27T14:59:38Z")

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> [@mshar253](#):
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> I’m surprised that you claim to have been surprised by this. Wasn’t a big stink made about this a month ago?

That’s the thread I referred to in the OP. But yes, I was surprised by it. Two lines of text?

> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> But this isn’t correspondence-this is ongoing conversation.

No, it’s correspondence, or closer to it than conversation. This is far more like sending e-mails back and forth than talking on the phone.

> [@Polycarp](#):
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> Cut out the snarky one-liners and speak your mind instead

I already do the second part. I suspect you are falling for the silliness that some push, that I never do anything but drive-bys. This isn’t the case. I do snarky one-liners, I do extended riffs, I do detailed analysis, I do posts that are practically term papers. But I’m speaking my mind in all of it.

The sign off is part of it. Sometimes it means exactly what it says, Sometimes it means “Fuck you”.

Sometimes it is a reminder to myself that it is just a message board.

Regards,  
Shodan

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