Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

[Alex Snow]

I would use donkey if it would connect.  I cant seem to connect to any of
the servers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'


Hi Alex. Actually, I like Donkey better. I've found all sorts of winblows
stuff, all those progs you mentioned, plus ebooks. Everything >from military
field manuals to guide to PHP. Its all there!
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'


> Let's see... visual studio enterprise, partition magic, norton system
works
> 2002 pro, frontpage, You name it, It got it from kazaa.  It's one of the
> best file sharing networks for winblows. Hell, you can even get winblows
> from it!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'
>
>
> Hi Greg. That's where progs like Edonkey2000 come in. Norton antivirus
> partition magic you name it! All the crap that isn't worth paying for.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romualt.dhs.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'
>
>
> > The problem with getting antivirus software is that there is no freeware
> antivirus software. In addition to paying for such software, some
company's
> such as Mcafee expect you to pay for engine and dat file upgrades after a
> year.
> >
> > Second, URLs are perfectly accessible in plain-text messages.
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> > > All you are doing is introducing censorship!
> > >
> > > If you are a windows user for reading your mail, and don't want your
> computer attacked with every virus that happens down the wire, then get an
> anti virus program and run it on your computer.
> > >
> > > If you don't like HTML in in your messages, do like some members of
the
> list do, and right a process to strip it off. In fact, if you ask the
right
> people, they may even share what they have already developed for this
> process. (No, I am not the one using a stripping process.)
> > >
> > > There are reasons for people to have their format set the way in which
> they do, and I don't think that a list should be censoring the formatting
of
> a message.
> > >
> > > In my case, the corporate standard is to have the email client respond
> to a message in the same format that it was sent in. They would also
prefer
> use of html so that any url's sent in a message are easily accessed, and
> active.
> > >
> > > So, if you choose to implement such a form of censorship, then I guess
> that I will be dropped from the list automatically. Yes some of you will
say
> no loss, but then I guess I would no longer be able to help those where
and
> when I can. To those people, I will say sorry in advance, list censorship
> prevents me from assisting you.
> > >
> > > Come on, folks, take some responsibility for your own set ups, and
stop
> trying to pass off the responsibility on to some else. There is too much
of
> NIMBY in the world today to have it show up here on the list.
> > > (NIMBY, Not In My BackYard!)
> > >
> > > Frankly, I am tired of hearing about the email formatting woes, and
that
> is all this thread is about, when you dig down to the bottom of the
problem.
> > > A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf!
> > >
> > > "But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong!" (Dennis Miller)
> > >
> > > Steve Dawes
> > > PH:  (403) 268-5527.
> > > Mailto:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Igor Gueths [mailto:igueths at attbi.com]
> > > > Sent: 2002 May 14 2:10 PM
> > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi. I think that this method is both better and more
> > > > standard. I wouldn't mind if messages were restricted to
> > > > text. I don't transmit in html anyway.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: 'Georgina' <y>
> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:48 PM
> > > > Subject: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi All
> > > > >
> > > > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit Windows
> > > > > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages
> > > > > restricted to plain text only?
> > > > >
> > > > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is.
> > > > >
> > > > > Gena
> > > > >
> > > > > Have your say:
> > > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
> > > > >
> > > > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see
> > > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Personal Contact Details:
> > > > > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465
> > > > >
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