ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

[Romeyn Prescott]

At 5:23 PM +0100 12/14/04, Erik Bågfors scribbled:
>On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:57:43 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:17:28 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker
>>  <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
>>  > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:02 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>  >
>>  > > the easiest solution is to reply-all
>>  >
>>  > Even easier is the reply-to-list function of Evolution (ctrl+l)
>>
>>  A candle or two please :)
>>
>>  Unfortunately using Evolution would (a) lock me into using Linux
>>  exclusively (something that I won't do) and (b) lock me into using
>>  Evolution.
>
>a) Why? Imap for example is very accessable from other mailclients
>b) See A
>
>I use evolution (normally), mutt (when I'm away from a good client),
>webmail (behind firewalls) and thunderbird (when I have to run
>windows).  Works great
>

I don't think this is a debate that can ever come 
to resolution.  IMHO, technology that is so 
broad-reaching should cater to the lowest common 
denominator.  Figuring out what that IS, however, 
is no mean feat either.  :-(

I know there are people who read their E-mail 
from anything anywhere.  But I only use ONE 
computer: my laptop.  Why?  It's always with me. 
I always POP my mail and maintain personal 
archives of at least a year's worth of every 
mailing list I'm on.  I'm not much of a traveler, 
but when I am away from 'net access, I always 
have my E-mail with me and can peruse lists and 
learn/research something.  Moreover, subscribing 
to as many lists as I do would quickly gain me 
the attention of my boss who is also our campus' 
mail server administrator.  We are about to move 
to a quota system for our E-mail, and I'd be SOL 
if I tried to keep all my mail server-side for 
use by IMAP!  Moreover, despite the fact that 
we've never had a failure that has resulted in a 
loss of E-mail, I simply don't trust anyone by ME 
to keep my E-mail safe.  I'm not a 
"read-and-deleter."  I keep and archive all my 
personal mail.

But that's just me.  That's MY preference.  It's 
not a superior one...it's just mine.  Other 
people do what works for them, and that's great. 
But with something as ubiquitous as E-mail, it's 
folly to inflict a particular way of use upon 
others.

The LIST sent me this message.  If I reply to the 
message, it should go back to the list.  The 
author didn't send it to me, he sent it to the 
LIST.  The list sent it to me.

...ROMeyn
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