On Tue, 27 May 2003 03:58:20 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I don't send any infected messages to anyone.
Of course you don't. But if someone was sending infected messages with your name in the FROM: field, what are your friends going to think when they receive these messages? They are going to THINK you sent them, whether you did or not! I have received some > messages from people I don't even know and who call me all kinds of > names for sending them messages that I never sent to them. Some of That is exactly my point! How are they going to know whether you sent them or someone else has faked your name in the From: field? > them even say that they have reported me to my ISP. It is an > annoyance for me to receive emails accusing me of things I don't do. > I don't respond to the complaints. I just delete them and forget them. You don't bother to reassure your friends that you didn't send them these messages? > It is probably also an annoyance for my ISP to receive complaints about > me for things that I never did. I am sure that my ISP doesn't take > the complaints seriously because I have never heard from my ISP about > any of the complaints these jerks are filing against me. That's fine so far. Maybe the ISP has a threshold number of complaints before (s)he acts. > It doesn't take any expertise to know that you should delete any and > all attachments containing executable code and sent from an untrusted But people still allow those attachments to be opened automatically. > source. It doesn't take any expertise to delete a virus unless your > machine gets infected. It doesn't take any expertise to prevent your > machine from getting infected unless you are running Window$. And why do you think virtually ALL viruses are designed to attack the Windows O/S these days? People > who lack the expertise to run Window$ properly ought to run a safe > alternative and easy to use operating system instead. Like DOS? You're joking, aren't you? Windows was designed specifically for people who couldn't handle more complex operating systems. Go tell THEM they are too stupid to be allowed to use it. from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia "Queen City of the South" 34:55S 138:36E http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
