At 9:14 AM +0000 4/1/99, Petr Novotny wrote:
} > My car is "user-friendly" and easy to use, so are you saying that if
} > I go out and drive at 100mph and crash that it's Ford's fault for
} > not limiting the maximum speed of my car?
}
} Dismissed - invalid analogy. You need a licence to drive a car. You
} probably did some tests to prove you know what you're doing. If there
} were no licence for driving a car, Ford would make a car that would
} limit your maximum speed.
And there would be information available on the web on how to disable the
governor. Mechanics would offer to do it, even if it was illegal, for a
price.
Since I lead a Microsoft free life, Melissa hasn't affected me except by
all the mail that has shown up here and on BUGTRAQ about it. I didn't even
get a single copy of the Melissa spew sent to me yet.
The Microsoft users here say that the mechanism that Melissa uses is
disabled by default. And yet the news outlets, even the clueful ones, are
all braying that Melissa is the "fastest spreading virus ever". That
indicates to me that lots of people (and at Microsoft and Intel, reported
to be heavily hit!) are turning whatever protections there are off. Or is
it that the protections are on only in NT and not in the 95/98?
(And what this has to do with qmail is beyond me.)
}
} Next!
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} Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
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