On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 at 20:13:10, Geoff Wicks wrote:
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [ql-users] "DIANOUX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Finally, those who moan
>> about Lookout Express should consider how they would feel
>> about changing their system after using it for many (on the
>> whole, happy) years. Taking such drastic action is a last
>> resort! Although I only deploy a virus checker on suspicion
>> of infection, or after engaging in unsafe practices, I have
>> only once in five years actually been infected, and that I
>> discovered without the aid of one. I caught it off the
>> internet, not via email.
>>
>
>Many thanks, Per, you have expressed my feelings exactly not only in the
>above quote but in your whole piece. In about two years I have only caught a
>virus once and that was my own fault! (I caught it from a QL-user on this
>list!)
>
>I spend a lot of time working on international surveys of company computer
>users and have a pretty good idea of how MS is regarded in most European
>countries. There are some MS lovers, but most users are constructively
>critical. MS is usually assessed as the most arrogant computer software or
>hardware company.
>
>Now to bring this provocatively back on topic the unfortunate reality is
>that you can do a lot of things with MS systems than you cannot do with a
>QL. Our loyalty is based more on a recognition of what the QL could have
>been rather than of what it is. In discussing MS I would welcome more
>humility and less arrogance from the QL community.
All I was saying was that TP has worked fine.
I have never used any other product 'cos of this.
I am not trying to be arrogant in any sense, and I am sorry if you
interpreted the bare words in this way.
I am very much looking forward to the day when I can use my QL BBS
machine to, in particular, send out the QL snailshots. I find it quite
incongruous to use my PC for this.
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