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NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

Jan Verschuere

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Jan Verschuere » Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:02:58

Personally, I just like the interface better than any other newsreader for
Win9x/Linux/BeOS I've tried. Perhaps this is force of habit as a long time
IE user, but there you go.

BTW: what makes OE more of a security hazard than other readers?

Jan.
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Uncle Feste

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Uncle Feste » Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:21:03


> Personally, I just like the interface better than any other newsreader for
> Win9x/Linux/BeOS I've tried. Perhaps this is force of habit as a long time
> IE user, but there you go.

> BTW: what makes OE more of a security hazard than other readers?

Research.  What has been the target/tool for propagation of the last few
dozen viruses?  Might tell you something.  That's why they call it
Outbreak Express. ;-)  But then, it *is* hard to change from an
interface you prefer.  I run across the same thing with the Netscape
newsreader.  When I run in *nix, there's better news readers available.
But I much prefer NS's.  So I can identify.

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Fester

Eldre

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Eldre » Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:05:36



>look out, EP is on a tear this week.......
>:)

It was a bad weekend of racing...<g>

Eldred
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Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
F1 hcp. +16.36...Monster +366.59...

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
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Eldre

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by Eldre » Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:05:35



>Personally, I just like the interface better than any other newsreader for
>Win9x/Linux/BeOS I've tried. Perhaps this is force of habit as a long time
>IE user, but there you go.

>BTW: what makes OE more of a security hazard than other readers?

Because its default settings allow it to run malicious code that can***up
your system.  The average user doesn't know this, and wouldn't know how to
protect their system.

Eldred
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Homepage - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~epickett
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Jan Verschuere

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by Jan Verschuere » Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:09:52

Point taken, however and IMO, this has more to do with OE being the most
widely used reader than any of it's features. If you wanted to spread a
virus, would you write it to exploit a loophole in WinVN ??

Yipe!! -Does it line wrap correctly when printing messages nowadays?

Jan.
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Jan Verschuere

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Jan Verschuere » Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:12:38

Very true... I keep forgetting a large percentage of computer owners
shouldn't be computer owners in the first place. A sort of inborn "assumed
intelligent until proven stupid" mentality on my part.

Jan.
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Uncle Feste

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Uncle Feste » Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:17:46


> "Uncle Fester" wrote...
> > <snip>
> > Research.  What has been the target/tool for propagation of the last few
> > dozen viruses?  Might tell you something.  That's why they call it
> > Outbreak Express. ;-)

> Point taken, however and IMO, this has more to do with OE being the most
> widely used reader than any of it's features. If you wanted to spread a
> virus, would you write it to exploit a loophole in WinVN ??

Eldred covered this adequately, so I'll refer you to his response.  ;-)

Printing?  Don't know... when I *do* print doc's, I take them to work &
print them. <g>  Displays them on-screen fine.

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Fester

Eldre

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Eldre » Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:39:58



>"EldredP" wrote...
>> <snip>
>> Because its default settings allow it to run malicious code
>> that can***up your system.  The average user doesn't know
>> this, and wouldn't know how to protect their system.

>Very true... I keep forgetting a large percentage of computer owners
>shouldn't be computer owners in the first place. A sort of inborn "assumed
>intelligent until proven stupid" mentality on my part.

I never understood why they didn't have the default settings be more secure.
then they could say:"Ok, for the more advanced users, this is how you...".  Be
it applications or operating systems, I think this would have prevented 80-90%
of the virus/worms/etc. that are out there...

Eldred
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Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001
Homepage - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~epickett
F1 hcp. +16.36...Monster +366.59...

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with experience...
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Tom Pabs

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by Tom Pabs » Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:54:30

Lol....Don!
Tom Pabs

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Tom Pabs » Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:53:30

Okay...Okay...Okay.....

You guys are way OFF TOPIC here....let's get back to the serious nature of
the question at hand....can we?

Tom

Jan Verschuere

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Jan Verschuere » Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:01:09

Go sit on an egg.

Jan.
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Jan Verschuere

NASCAR Rules! F1 Is For Whimps!

by Jan Verschuere » Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:10:08

Ah, I see how you never got turned off by this "feature".

Back in the early days, I tried Netscrape and, while it displayed news
messages fine, it did not word wrap them when printing. I.e. apart from the
header one would only get the first line of the body on paper, the rest
begin lopped off as it was outside the printable margin.

I subsequently tried to uninstall it, but that didn't go smoothly either.
Ended up having to do rebuild of my system to get rid of it and go back to
IE and OE (partly my fault, didn't know better than to do a standard install
back then).

Jan.
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