On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 04:42:00PM -0400, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> > I find these statements to be self-contradictory. I *don't*
> > virus check any of my mailing lists ...
> (snipperoo)
> >... but I consider it part of my responsibility to promote and
> > effect continued improvement any way I can.
> (snipperee)
> -- And aren't they? <ducking fast and dodging hard>
<chuckle> Touche!
Although I could argue that, in the long term, the evolutionary progress
of the Internet is best served by allowed O/OE users to continue to blast
each other viruses until they take corrective action or cease to be
Internet users. The downside of this (and where it gets in the way of
continued improvement) is that it chews up bandwidth and annoys [some of]
the people who are just bystanders and don't care about any of this.
Rsk, who is annoyed that one of his favorite sayings ("Windows: the
Corvair of operating systems") has been rendered into an inadequate
analogy thanks to the ingenious mechanical tinkering of multitudes
of Corvair enthusiasts out there that he was previously unaware of.
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