On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 22:10, Randall Clague wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:35:43 +1000, "Jake Anderson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >This is a rocketry list, please don't fill it up with crap like this post. > >Personally I was put off using linux by people and messages like this. > > More specifically, it is the ERPS list, whose charter includes ERPS > official business. Given the circumstances, I would say that a > broadcast to the list constitutes official ERPS business - > particularly when the "crap like this post" comes from the President > of the Society.
I, the list administrator, concur. Dave probably should have mentioned the first time that he was writing the list due to infected list members, though. And he apologized for that. I've certainly been put off of using Windows by all these viruses. If you're put off of using Linux by the people who use it, why in the world would you use Windows? If there were Linux users whose machines were sending worms to list members, I'd yell at them too. Unfortunately, there aren't any. It's actually at least as much due to the lack of Outlook on Linux (one of the few mail programs that will let you *execute* an attachment) as it is due to the "security" of Linux, which is probably not much more than XP in your average config, particularly when people like me are lazy and chmod 666 all sorts of device nodes. It's also due to the lack of homogeneity among Linux distributions. I'm sure plenty of Linux lusers read their mail as root and would happily execute attachments if allowed.
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