From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 30 23:12:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFDDD14C2D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 29917 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 1999 07:12:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 29902 invoked by uid 0); 31 Mar 1999 07:12:21 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 31 Mar 1999 07:12:21 -0000 Message-ID: <3701CAA8.5086D3C2@uswest.net> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:11:36 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Benson Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) References: <000201be7b31$8f0d9ac0$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Benson wrote: > > > > > That aside, the key feature of Outlook is the remarkable ability to > > both piss people off with HTML e-mails while being infected with > > prank-viruses like Melissa and Happy99. Those Micro$oft folk are > > geniuses, aren't they? > > > > First I have to say that I'm not a fan of Microsoft in any way. I also have > to admit that I use Outlook98. Yes there can be some extremely annoying > problems with HTML mail and such, but users with a little knowledge can > easily disable such features. As far as handling large amount of email goes, > I couldn't survive without the auto sorting features built into outlook. As > far as prank-viruses go, almost any windows mail program can be dangerous if > you don't pay attention to the attachments that come in your mail. I think > it should be said that most people should think about what could be in an > attachment they weren't expecting. Granted, but Outlook's integration with Office opens the door to things like Melissa, which only works when you've got Outlook and Word 97/2k. Perhaps this is why I laugh every time I hear that some poor NT admin had to take the mail server offline. At least Netscape Messager has a very simple means of diabling HTML and Java/JS in e-mail and news. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message