Hi all, I, as an ordinary user of Linux, have to comment on this thread. I am sick and damned tired of deleting these virus messages from my inbox! I'm tired to death of looking at: my details, your details, your application and thank you! Yeh, "thank you" for aggravation, for inconvenience, for continued harrassment, and on and on. Yes, if you want somebody to back you up in a post to the media about this horrendousness over the past week, I'd be happy to do so. Somebody asked on one of the "blind" lists why we are satisfied with inferior products and persist in being grateful for shoddiness in development of adaptive equipment and software. the questioner when on to say that if the ordinary public would have this kind of stuff, they wouldn't put up with it for an hour. My response is *wrong*! Mr. John Q. Public is willing to put up with a shoddy OS that has poor memory usage, poor file utilities, poor security protection, and is constantly being touted as the best thing since sliced bread! Well, if even I can get frustrated because I have to delete a third of my email because it is full of viruses, then why isn't John Q. Public upset? Why? Because John Q. Public is an ignoramus, a moron, a creton. So long as Microsoft does what they want it to do, they're content. They're like little children, they don't know any better. Sure, I'll say whatever you like if it will encourage people to demand decent servers and a decent OS. But until then, I'm going to be a Windows teacher because John Q. Public insists that that's what he wants to learn. He will pay to be taught to use an inferior system, so why rock the boat, teach 'em what they want and put up with deleting messages. Not sure this piece makes a lot of sense, but hey, maybe some of it does. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
