Alex Perry writes: > I have been wondering whether the Outlook autorun feature > could conveniently be used to assist Windows users who would > like to use FlightGear. They sign up for the mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual and their > start of subscription mail message has a PIF attachment > that autoinstalls FlightGear. Thereafter, whenever we > have a version upgrade, the announcement is copied to that > mailing list ... together with a PIF autorun attachment > that will apply the upgrade without user intervention. > > Convenient, no ?
Hehe, Several years ago when the windows email virus/worm stuff started to become popular, I saw a similar proposal (that actually sounded quite plausible) for installing linux on the person's machine via this outlook email hole. Fortunately, it appears that the linux people that are sharp enough to pull this off have more useful/ethical things to do. But I suppose that would be one way to fight the market share wars. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
