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Default Shore to ship semaphore (WARNING!!!)

Al Thomason wrote:
That you are a ******.

This is one reason I do not like tinyurl, it hides the site it sends
you to (and yes, I have 'configured' tinyurl.com to show confirm
before it passes me on, that does not always work.)


In this case, it takes you to a porno site, most likely ready to
install a virus...

-al-


On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:12:34 -0700, "Jakob Krutzfeld"
wrote:


Most cruisers don't know semaphore and have little reason to use it.
However, a set of basic arm signals can convey essential messages. Here is
demonstrated a basic shore to ship signal:



What does the signal convey?




Thanks Al.

I didn't know you could set the thing up to verify first.

Usually just skipped tinyurls entirely.