I recently sold my laptop on Craigslist (I just upgraded to the new unibody MacBook Pro). I got a flurry of emails, two of which I immediately recognized as scams. The one I tried to engage in a 'transaction', but went nowhere. The other one I was able to string along for 3 days, 39 emails and a Skype chat! I will post this purely for educational purpose, so you don't get scammed. Here's how it went down:
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5 years ago I wrote this article on how to sort a multidimensional array with ASP. This morning I was contacted by James Philips of  Djanogly City Academy Nottingham, who told me that he found my article, and has adapted the function for VB.NET compilation. Additionally, he has modified it to allow sorting on numeric criteria so that numbers aren’t sorted as strings.

With his permission I'm publishing the function. Enjoy!
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