On Sun, 7 May 2000 12:09:23 -0600, Boanne Lorraine wrote:
>}- .....
>}- It's not easy to defeat a "denial of service" attack. However,
>}- defeating a virus whose aim is getting down computer systems
>}- worldwide as many as possible while destroying their data,
>}- should not be a challange for a normally equipped brain. The
>}- name of the pill is DIVERSITY!
>}- .....
>
>Excellently, eloquently, and wonderfully put, expletives and all!
>Thanks very much for saying something that REALLY needs to be
>said. And said. And said. And said again. I too get very, very
>tired of these virus warnings that mean absolutely nothing to me
>(since I run DOS) *ESPECIALLY* here on the Survive PC list, which
>is *supposed* to be devoted to legacy hardware and *DOS*. If
>there are people here who are running Windows by choice or by
>force, let them call Micro$oft (Ha!) or go find a Windows list to
>discuss their virii and other Windows problems. *THIS* list is
>supposed to be for discussion of DOS. Just in the last 2 days I
>have recieved 26 emails warning me about the ILOVEYOU virus - I
>don't care, and enough already!
Where in the following text, which I received the last time I subscribed, does it say
that Windows, including Windows95 is off topic?
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Most listmembers seem to see Windows as a Dosshell, not an operating system, and most
of them deal with computers running Windows9x or later quite often. I can not
see why a message about a Windows virus should be inappropriate here. There was a
similar message on the 78-rpm list I subscribe to, noone got hysteria even though
you certainly can not play this virus on a Victrola.
Most listmembers seem to be fans of a Microsoft product, with or without Windows...
Per B.
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