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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!rpowers
- From: rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <C0IBIn.B6p@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <19311@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan7.152804.25976@nastar.uucp> <BETSYS.93Jan7125620@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:20:46 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In <BETSYS.93Jan7125620@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
-
- >Exactly, exactly. i wonder if these cheery hypothesizers have ever
- >EXPERIENCED a virus infection on a PC in a work environment? Or
- >discovered that there were altered system files on a multi-user
- >networked machine, which they were being paid to keep secure?
- > There's a very clear line on this group, and in comp.unix.admin,
- >between the paid system maintainers and what I would categorize as the
- >inexperienced users. Anyone who's ever seen a weird message appear on
- >a system console late Friday afternoon or early Monday morning has a
- >different attitude about "fool-proof" "guaranteed harmless" programs!
-
- In <BETSYS.93Jan6180458@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth
- Schwartz) w\
- rites:
-
- >I for one get frustrated by the tendency to categorize to the extreme
- >in this medium.
- [...]
-
- Isn't that exactly what you are doing above?
-
- > I value diversity and hearing things which I might not have
- >otherwise heard.
- [...]
-
- Unless they come from someone you would CATEGORIZE as "inexperienced
- user"?
-
- Or maybe this diversity extends only to ideas that fit your
- world-view?
-
-
- It seems hypocrital to say on the one hand "I value diversity and
- hearing things...". While on the other hand attacking an idea that
- you don't find palatable.
- --
- Richard Powers / Huh? David Letterman is whipping / Apathy.
- rpowers@panix.com / his microphone with a rubber hose. /
- / No, wait! Thats beef jerky! / Hail Eris!
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