While you make good points, here's one that should be considered... I've not seen this person's name on the list much before, but then I haven't been looking for it. My point is, that everyone is a newbie at some point. Someone who steps into the programming arena from some other walk of life might now know the pitfalls to avoid. I know someone who was hired by a company to be their Microsoft Excel guru...she's very good with this stuff. But somewhere along the way she started messing with ColdFusion, and now is well along the way to being a very competent CF developer. But her scope of technologies is far more liited than, say yours or mine, because she's not been exposed to it.
Could be she knows enough about viruses to protect herself against it, but then it could be she relies on an IT department that's lazy, and isn't protecting their systems as well as they could, and she doesn't realize it. She sends mail to the list and zaps a few machines with a virus she's caught, and it's through no fault of her own. So, while it does get annoying to see problems like this, there are extenuating circumstances sometimes. I think we should just all be a bit more tolerant of others' mistakes and help them to fix the problem when arise. We're all friends here (more or less) and the whole idea of this community is to help one another. If the virus was spread maliciously, I'd be singing a different tune, but there's no evidence of that, so I say let it be and protect yourself properly. Just my #dollarFormat(0.02)# worth. Kevin Langevin Web Guy In Charge UsWebGuys 954-327-5780 -----Original Message----- From: Dave Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Hi While removing the offender from the list may not be called for, I don't agree that it "wasn't his fault". We're all supposed to be programmers here, most of whom are supposed to be professionals. We represent the 98th to 100th percentile of all internet users. We, of all people, should be aware of such problems, and be the first to use common sense and take the necessary precautions. We should be the ones who know best the dangers of opening attachments and being careless on the net. I guess I take a hard line, but to me, when folks on lists like these repeatedly (and I don't mean any one individual does it repeatedly, but repeatedly we see folks on the list get infected) - I guess I have a hard time understanding that. Nobody on this list is any busier than me. But I still feel it's part of my job/profession to keep up on the latest security problems (and I'm a developer - not a systems person) and be aware. Folks should subscribe to a few e-zines that will alert you right away when the worms, viruses and the like hit, so you can update your anti-virus and be aware of what you might see in your email. Accidents can and do happen. And when they do, the ARE our fault. There's no excuse . . . OK - I'm off my soap box. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:31 AM Subject: RE: Hi Why unsub him? .. It wasnt his fault he accidently fell prey to some morons latest virus creation. And you'd only get it too if you wasnt upto date with your protection. But the list-mailer stripped it out anyway so whats the prob. -+ SteG +- :) -----Original Message----- From: Jason Blum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 December 2001 14:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hi how about unsubscribing him? > ---------- > From: Stephen Moretti > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2001 9:44 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Hi > > Someone slap this guy! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lon Lentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:14 PM > Subject: Hi > > > > How are you ? > > When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you > > I am in a harry, I promise you will love it! > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
