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Throckmorton

Lifer
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How do you know the guy's mother didn't die? Just leave it on the shelf or something. Why even bother formatting it and using it? What are you going to do when the files on the CD are corrupted (I bet you're one of the 99% who doesn't verify CDs).
 

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Probably doesn't check his campus e-mail. Facebook him
-AE

Or his email was picked up by a spam filter.

I can see it now

Sub: Free 2Gb Flash Drive!
Msg: Are you missing data. Do you need some quick way to transport it from computer to computer? Call xxx-xxx-xxxx for your free flash card, complete with lost data!

Yeah, he might not respond if the email looked like that :p