----- Original Message ----- From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:19 PM Subject: Re: "Under God" (Was Re: Tragedy in Israel)
> > > From: Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hey, black and white TV was great too! > > > > I find it enormously entertaining when the netgeeky among us claim to > have > > the fastest machine, the newest progs and mods, and then pedanticly > rail for > > keeping the original killer app in the same state it has been in fer > years > > and years. > > Hey a 500MHZ machine is good enough for everyone, even the ubergeek that > I am. Well, I'm currently stuck with a P3 550. I've been wanting to upgrade for over a year, but reality keeps getting in the way. :( > Don't break what works. Hey almost all cutting edge linux apps > are that way. I would think that the pride of the Linux geek would have brought into being, even for lowly email apps, capabilities far beyond those of mere Windows apps. Instead, what I often hear sounds like " We want to keep things simple and stupid so the big bad virus writers wont come looking for us." <G> > > > Why shouldnt email evolve and gain new capabilities? > > Why should that be a problem? > > Because it has become a platform for viral marketing and spying on people > through web-bugs/cookies/Java. The best part is those email clients that > absolutely will not allow viewing HTML as plaintext (I mean OUTLOOK, OE) > because spam is big money for those companies (not directly). > Whenever I drive to work, I am accosted by spam.......in the form of billboards. When I watch TV.....commercials. The radio.....more commercials. The newspaper.......adds out the wazoo. You thought the net would be different? <G> The programs on all platforms are not to be faulted. The fault lies with people. Lets get rid of em! <G> xponent The Exterminator rob
