Speaking eloquently about the antics of the "the strange distracted gnomes of
Redmond," Pete Vincent wrote,
> ... Not providing this sort of control in a mail program
> written for an installed machine base in the order of a hundred
> million is irresponsible to the point of being as much a perpetrator
> of the resulting mayhem as the actual virus writers.
Upon reading Pete's observations, a computer engineer friend of mine observed:
"If Microsoft were a telephone manufacturer and their product could be made to
burn down your house if the right kind of devious call were made to it, then I
think a product recall would be in order. It is amazing what individuals and
businesses will put up with from their computers."
Sounds right to me.
Stephen Straker
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Vancouver, B.C.
