Rumor has it that Lars Hansson may have mentioned these words:
>On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:05:45PM +0000, Uwe Ohse wrote:
[snip]
>> I just want protection from stupid idiots and people wasting my
>> time. People running virus scanners which are not absolutely
>> invisible to the outside _are_ vasting my time. And people
>> who have virus problem _today_ are idiots. Everybody with the
>> smallest possible amount of brain could have understood, by now
>> (it's 2001!), that they are supposed to sue the makers of
>> bad software.
>
>People are idiots, haven't you noticed?
The US gubbermint tried that with M$... Now with Dubya in office, M$ is
winning... :-/
>> Kill outlook. It's garbage - as proven by it's history of security
>> problems. You want security? Ask them to use mutt.
>
>As nice an idea that is, it is not practical. You want to tell your
computer illiterate boss to use text-mode mutt? Congrats, have a nice day.
>Maybe in the long run we can get people to not use crap products but for
now it is not realistic to expect people to not use outlook et al.
>People, sadly enough, care more about how easy a program is for them to
use than how secure it is.
This is also assuming that all sysadmins work for corporations -- some of
us work at (or own) ISP's and we cannot just tell all of our customers "Hey
-- quit using Outlook [Express]." We're forced to support it or lose
business...
Unforch, the beauty of qmail allows our 2700-ish mailboxes to *still* be
hosted on a Pentium 166-class machine with 128Meg RAM & 4Gig hard drive -
and it doesn't even break a sweat. This is by no means enough horsepower to
scan each & every document for virii, so to try to implement a server-side
"virus solution" [which, IMO, isn't a solution either...] requires nearly a
complete hardware upgrade... :-(
And yet, I still get *at least 1* luser per week *blaming* us for sending
them a virus -- "they get their mail from us, so it must be our fault..."
-- Whatthehelleverhappened to personal responsibility?
=== And don't get me started on spam... ===
>> Aha. That's your excuse for using something 100% away from perfection.
>> I see.
>
>Perfection is unattainable.
Just ask the Borg.
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
