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

[Jonathan Berry]

I'm posting here mainly to see if the list is 
alive ...

Outlook* lacks a "culture of safety".  Some other
mail programs (such as YARN which I am still using as we
speak) have no security holes.  You have to do something 
[stupid] to break their security.  With Outlook*, it could
depend upon the patch / attack du jour.  That is not a culture 
of safety.

Webmail holds other terrors, for example the question of
privacy.

>> There is no 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
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Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm