[Thinkpad] ENOUGH - Re: Top posting,.....

[Khoury, Paul]

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> From: thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org 
> [mailto:thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org] On Behalf Of Desertech
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:09 AM
> To: Alex Austin
> Cc: thinkpad at stderr.org; David Ross
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ENOUGH - Re: Top posting,.....
> 
> There is not doubt that PINE, ELM, and Gopher open your 
> computer to all sorts of vulnerabilities... but still the 
> invader would have to know that one of them was installed... 
> or be very lucky in its detections... I would never put any 
> of the three on any institutional computer due to the 
> risks... invasion becomes easy once the evil doer knows you 
> have one of them installed.

Yeah, but then is Outlook or Outlook Express any safer?
I started using Outlook 2003 for this list (only because I use
gmail), but I'm still using the same PMMail program I've used since
1997 (I guarantee no security holes for that).

I think these days, webmail is the best route to go if you're looking
to make things secure.

Paul