*applause* Thanks, Shannon. You said it much more politely than I was able to do.
"I cannot fight upon this argument; It is too starved a subject for my sword." - Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 1 --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:55 AM, will hill wrote: > > > On 2004.01.29 00:39 John Hebert wrote: > > > >> > >> That's not science, that's politics. Or religion, > >> considering your zealotry. Have you even read the > >> analysis on how this virus works? > >> See: > >> > http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=mydoom > >> > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/ > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > Yes, I've read about this typical Microsoft > transmitted disease. If > > you had read my post before smarting off with > questions that I > > answered, you might have understood what I was > saying instead of > > judging it wrong because it does not match your > own preconceived > > notions. > > > > I am a scientist and I want to make a statistical > case. I don't have > > the means at my disposal because I don't' > administer a mail server. > > It would be easy enough to do if you had a few > thousand messages > > sitting around. > > You can feel free to rifle through my mail server > logs under some sort > of an NDA. Would have to see about that. Don't > think you will find > anything except for randomness though. Problem is > that the mail server > logs are NOT what you want since that only tells > half (less?) of the > story. You would need to inspect the address books > of all of the > source machines, etc. > > Anyway, I must have gone to sleep a couple days ago > and woke up in a > parallel universe if M$ is sending out viruses now. > I know they are > greedy, no good, arrogant pieces of shit, but come > on dude, I don't > think they would start using the weaknesses of their > own operating > system to make linux users look bad. The only thing > they get in the > long run is a black eye and more people migrating > away. > > I can see an inkling of a possibility that their OS > had something to do > with the north east power outages, but this!? I > still think that they > paid the right people to not make a big issue out of > the monitoring > systems being down. But this is totally different. > We all know that > Winblows is a crappy OS, but I think releasing > viruses intentionally is > beneath even them. > > I think the contest for zealotry is over now, please > return to your > regularly scheduled mailing list. :-) > > Shannon > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== John Hebert 'cat /dev/random | perl' __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
