From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 14: 8:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (66-61-52-186.wo4.cox.rr.com [66.61.52.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA42837B408 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 14:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E7AA7E; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:08:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:08:15 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: Joe Gwozdecki Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sending attachments Message-ID: <20020518210815.GD605@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: Joe Gwozdecki , FreeBSD Questions References: <005f01c1fe74$2a351d70$0300000a@lyon> <20020518184842.GB605@hal9000.halplant.com> <013a01c1feaa$aa2b62b0$0300000a@lyon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <013a01c1feaa$aa2b62b0$0300000a@lyon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe, > I thank you for your kind response to my post and your point is very well > taken. You're welcome. > I did not know FreeBSD is not prone to viruses via attachments like > other software was and continues to be. Well, FreeBSD is only an OS, not a mail client. That said, the problem with Microsoft software is in both the mail client and the OS. There are many mail clients which run on FreeBSD and it would be substantially true to say that none of them have the problems associated with MSware. So next time you see the headline.. "Internet Crippled By Latest Virus" ..you know that it really means that users of approximately one mail client (usually MS Outlook) running on approximately one platform (Windows) are being affected by an exploit of flaws in that software and (in most cases) their own incompetence. The Internet and everyone else using it are just fine. When they go on to say how the latest incident has cost $millions, that's probably true and is further evidence of the cost of choosing poor quality software. One usually finds that even when there are cases of mail exploits which aren't all MS products, they still involve MS products (eg. MS mail clients on Macs or other mail clients on Windows) and/or technologies. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message