On Sun, 07 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
>A very good idea, it would seem the _only_ OS vulnerable to
>melissa/ILOVEYOU et al "virus" is microsoft.
Linux _is_ susceptible to the virus in a different way... if your
mailserver is a linux machine, and you don't take measures to prevent
the offending mail go through it, and the rare possibility that it clogs
with many word macro virus emails...
>Can SLUG make a media release to the effect that Linux
>is not suseptable to such things?
That's only a half truth; in the interest of Truth In Media(tm), it's
non-windows(Outlook) operating systems/mail clients, including Linux,
*BSD, BeOS, VMS, etc)
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jamesw
<Hoju> Keyboard solo! skskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskksksksksks
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