On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:56:48 -0000 "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you can't do that, you should not drive a car! > > We're not talking about hard disk partitioning tools - we're just talking > about an e-mail reading program! Aren't the too most basic Internet tasks > browsing the web and reading e-mail? Shouldn't a standard Window > configuration protect 'dumb users' against these sort of things? (SP1 for > Outlook does finally make it more difficult)
No, a half decent software company should not have considered this a good thing and introduced them in the first place. > > If my boss, my SO, my mother or my brother ever opened such a file, > > I would laugh him/her in the face and mumble "I told you so". :) > > Heh! Well some people _should_ know better (like our support manager should > have!!), but with the Internet being introduced to more and more non-techy > users there are still plenty of others that don't. I've bailed out enough > relatived from many non-virus-related incidents (haven't we all?), so I hate > to think what would happen if they hadn't already been warned about them! It's nothing wrong with Internet, it's the users and the tools they opt (or rahter, are conned into) to use. -Frode 10 virtual kilos lighter -- ^ Frode Tennebø | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ | Ericsson Radar AS. | Isebakkeveien 49 | | N-1788 Halden | Phone: +47 69 21 41 47 | | with Standard.Disclaimer; use Standard.Disclaimer; |
