On 8 Mar 2007, at 14:11, David Cragg wrote: > I totally agree with Barry!
Your prerogative, of course :-) > Having said that I (The chap wot suggested the link) would be > unhappy if anyone thought I would pass on a dodgy link! Before I > recommended it I tested the link out by running the animation on my > other machine just in case. Before that it had been run extensively > all over the world by astronomy nuts. I saw your recommendation - you didn't say you'd tested it, so what were people expected to make of it? (and in any case, no-one knows what your 'testing' consists of or whether it is adequate to catch all known nasties). No-one is casting aspersions on your character as a good cyber-citizen, but without such provenance both you and Barry could have been duped into silently installing all manner of nasty things and a .exe leaves you wide open to anything. > As for the library not being happy to run such things... having > seen what people download onto our local library computers I would > never do any work on them involving money accounts etc. Precisely my point - but there are some people who do because it's their only point of Internet access and don't understand enough about the danger. I hope Barry isn't one of them. Really. And that's meant to be helpful, though I expect I'll now be accused of being patronising instead of, or as well as, condescending, when all I was trying to do was protect a fellow list member from an apparently unrecognised danger to himself and others. -- Andy Greener n.b. Whisper Pangbourne, UK http://www.nb-whisper.com "Standards are an endurance sport."
