Hello Jonathan! On Saturday, July 27, 2002 at 3:39:35 AM you wrote:
> If it is just them that are panicking about a harmless header, then > they should maybe see about contacting their mail administrator to > drop the header on the server, where it'll affect everybody. > Unfortunately they are heavily used on this list, and in some cases, > a lot of other lists as well. I gather the difficulty for them lies not so much in virus protection but the possibility to track the originators of the messages down (by simply clicking on the message ID). Even if this could *always* be done (theoretically possible), it just means that they are afraid of their own (openly sent) messages. Just think of all the people that have been laid off (reportedly there should be a bundle) because they wrote badly about their bosses/company/colleagues in Usenet. It harks back to the old problem of how to behave in e-mails/postings. If one thinks one is "anonymous" one will let off the leash. That, BTW, is the main reason Netiquette developed, it is a more or less written social code to avoid violence. People seem to forget that electronic communication is as viable as classical written one (letters, articles, books). There is a nice piece about this by Douglas Adams, which, I think, can be found on his website www.douglasadams.com. The part about the difference in value people assign to different forms of communication is somewhere hidden in an article about the future of the Internet (IIRC). -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de http://Interest.Write4U.de/pongo PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.61 on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C Lebe inkonsistent! (D.A. Wien) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
