Ooooh, touched a nerve ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Rundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:37 AM Subject: Re: Email settings [aus-soaring] Was: FAA license..
> > > > > >Its not that Outlook is full of bugs and Eudora isn't, > > > > Bullshit! > > http://www.computergripes.com/Outlook.Viruses.html > > "The list of bugs with Outlook and Outlook Express is a virtual > flood. Around July 20, 2000 or so > bugs came to light that can cause serious damage /*just by > downloading an email message! */ > Yikes! Let me be clear, */you do not have to open the offending > email message to be effected. "/* > > >its more the tall poppy syndrome in that MS products get targeted by anti MS > >people. > > > More Bullshit. Before you make anymore statements about this subject I > suggest that you get thourougly > aqainted with the facts. The reason that the computer industry is in > such a shocking state is that comsumers > like yourself blindly support M$ without bothering to check on the > actual reality. Just the simply fact that > most people know what "the blue screen of death" is and that they accept > that rebooting your computer to > fix a problem is "normal" or even just to install a piece of software > shows just how bad the situation is. > > Consider this for just a moment. If it's possible to write anti-virus > software to protect your computer then > why isn't that part of the base operating system? Why do you have to pay > for it as an add on? And just who > has the most to gain from yet another virus propagating into the wild? > > Some of us are mightly offended by your blind dumbass support for a > company that has stolen public > interlectual property and convinced the US Govenment (and the wimpy Oz > Government) to support it in > doing so. Try buying a desktop computer in Australia *without* buying a > piece of M$ softcrud and you > begin to see the strangle hold this company has on the computer industry. > > So if you are stupid enough to blindly use a cruddy piece of software > then that's your problem and > hopefully the viruses will eat your entire computer in short time. But > don't make dumb statements saying > it's just because it's the most popular mail client. It's sheer laziness > on the part of consumers like yourself > that can't be bothered to change to another package that has created > this situation. If it was any other > product people like yourself would be screaming to consumer protection > but for some reason I can't > fathom because it's mystical software you just accept it, and even shell > out more money to buy workaround > software and then you go out and make dumb statements supporting the > vendor. > > If software was a motor car you'd be lining up to get on ACA to gripe > about it, but because it's software.... > Oh and ACA are aligned with MSN anyway so you've got buckleys of them > ever saying anything against > M$. > > Oops, what has this got to do with soaring? Buggered if I know.... > > rgds > > Pete > > > > > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
