[I keep trying to redirect this noise somewhere else. Seems like some
peoples' mail clients don't respect standard headers, or something]
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:47:16PM +1200, James Spooner wrote:
> Are you in fact an expert on car safety, or do you buy/travel in a car based
> on what you know about car safety?
I'm no expert.
> If in fact you do, does this not make you a parallel to someone using
> windows and outlook express, who 'should know better'.
>
> Why do you think you travel in a particular car, is it perhaps because it's
> available and it gets you from A to B?
Sure. I don't make a habit of travelling in cars which are not licenced
to drive on the road, though, and that affords me some safety without
needing first-hand, expert knowledge of the dangers involved.
> I think that the Car vs Computer parallel in fact works in favour of windows
> in this case Joe.
I don't follow you.
There are safeguards set up to ensure people don't drive in unsafe cars,
regardless of how little they personally know about car safety.
There are no safeguards set up to encourage people not to use unsafe
mail clients. The regular virus bulletins could say "as with this other
large list of security problems, this one can be avoided simply by using
a different mail client", but they don't. ISPs could stop shipping OE,
or could find ways to encourage users to install different mail clients,
but they don't.
> Check my headers if you wonder which client I use :)
So why do you use it?
Joe
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