On or about 9/30/03 8:26 PM dmcadam ever-so-carefully typed: > Reply to Roger Diggle message 9/30/2003 1:18 PM > >>Outlook Express(R) is a registered trademark of... oops - >>you didn't *open* this email in Outlook Express(R), did >>you? Because, bless their Cute, Productive little hearts - >>can, somehow, with apparent Expedience, rationalize that it >>doesn'tmatterbecauseifwedidn'tleavethatdooropen... . . . . > > >Hi Roger- >That was a delightful excursion of levity from our usual discussion. >However I use Internet Explorer and am getting a lot of SPAM and Virus >messages.
You might get a lot of SPAM and Virus messages no matter what you use to read your email. People and machines - bless their Cute, Productive little hearts, will keep sending them to you. The thing worth noting about Outlook Express(R) in particular is that *it is* the software machine that generates - I'm guessing - 90% of the virus messages we all get. It is the one that most worms are designed to exploit. Because there are a lot of free copies of it around... and because, as with many humans, gullibility seems to be a big factor in the design. In my opinion, the design actually assumes a lot of *human* gullibility; it assumes that people will think that anything that Microsoft(R) gives away is actually serviceable and secure. Thinking twice about it, I'd have to opine that gullibility is one of the biggest factors in Microsoft(R)'s entire business plan. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
