Paying for Email

[Leon Goldstein]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Have you guys seen this ?? Bill Gates must be stopped !
>
> http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1700&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20040304%2F2221166741.htm&sc=1700

We already pay for e-mail via the ISP service charges.  What we are also 
paying for is the irresponsibility of both Microsoft and some ISP's who 
permit propagation of SPAM and worms.

Gates is trying, not very convincingly, to create a diversion.  I have 
been telling correspondents who use Windows to visit Steve Gibson's 
website (grc.com) and download and install his small programs that deal 
with some of the Windows vulnerabilities.  Of course, Gates should be 
doing that rather than blowing smoke.

I have received some e-mails from strangers angry over e-mails they 
received from me.  These of course are the result of te various worms.  
I politely explain that the e-mails they get are coming from infected 
Windows systems, not me.
I then explain I use Linux, and why.  Apparently, this has resulted in 
some converts to Linux.  Perhaps this is why Gates is now taking up arms 
against his products.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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