On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Ewen McNeill wrote:
However I'm with Joe: if you let the viruses do their thing, preferably as dramatically as possible, then the natural order will prevail eventually, as people get tired of reinstalling their machine for the third time that week (and/or confidental documents leaking and/or their clients shunning them).
I have been loath to take part in this festering pile of off topic email, but what the hell... The biggest problem I have with this whole ISP-based mail filtering is that it instills a dangerous false sense of security. The fact is, they can't stop everything (although they do okay so far), and for all the ISPs footnotes saying "Desktop virus scanning is important still" users are simply going, "oh, I don't need virus protection, my ISP has me covered for that. Anything I get through my mail is safe. It's been checked. I can double-click on everything!" I think users should remain scared sh*tless (wouldn't want teletech to bounce this) about viruses. They are still not scared enough. They need more fear. Protecting them from viruses at an ISP level just makes them complacent. -- Dylan Reeve - dylan(a)wibble.net It's just not cricket. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog