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<div>Chuck is definitely a real person, and not a scammer.  Have met him in person - can verify that he is real, and knowledgeable.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On May 6, 2025 8:11 PM, "Russell L. Carter via Ale" <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div class="PlainText">Precisely why would I care about "short links", and why would looking<br>
for Microfucks Windows 10 Pro Product Keys be distributed this way?<br>
<br>
And why do I have to CC the list to get your response in there?<br>
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You're a scammer.  Just fes up.<br>
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All the best,<br>
Russell<br>
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On 5/6/25 9:03 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:<br>
> Look up ETA Prime on Youtube, where I copy the URL, they were supposed <br>
> to be short links.<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM Russell L. Carter <rcarter@pinyon.org <br>
> <<a href="mailto:rcarter@pinyon.org">mailto:rcarter@pinyon.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>     Dear all,<br>
> <br>
>     Can someone explain to me why this immediate response to my<br>
>     message is NOT a scam?<br>
> <br>
>     See what I mean?  It looks AI generated.<br>
> <br>
>     Russell<br>
> <br>
>     On 5/6/25 8:49 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:<br>
>      ><br>
>      ><br>
>      > On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM Russell L. Carter via Ale<br>
>     <ale@ale.org <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">mailto:ale@ale.org</a>><br>
>      > <<a href=""></a>mailto:ale@ale.org <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">mailto:ale@ale.org</a>>>> wrote:<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     Hi all,<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     I want to have a valid Windows 10 Pro installation on top<br>
>      >     of QEMU.  I got the image.  Does anyone have any idea<br>
>      >     how to buy a valid product key?  A long time on the<br>
>      >     M$ site, including finally giving up my phone number,<br>
>      >     failed.  Can't buy a Windows 10 Pro Product Key.<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     I bought one off Amazon about 5 years ago and MS<br>
>      >     eventually called me a license violator or somesuch,<br>
>      >     every single time.  Never violated the license so<br>
>      >     the key vendor was probably grey.<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     What does one do, these days?  I have a small office<br>
>      >     device with W10 on it and it works, I guess keep<br>
>      >     buying them?<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     In olden tymes, I just ran a virtual machine and put<br>
>      >     in a valid Winsucks key on many versions of FreeBSD<br>
>      >     and Linux.<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     I'm flummoxed.<br>
>      ><br>
>      >     Russell<br>
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>      ><br>
>      > --<br>
>      > Terror PUP a.k.a<br>
>      > Chuck "PUP" Payne<br>
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> Terror PUP a.k.a<br>
> Chuck "PUP" Payne<br>
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