Jobst Schmalenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > No, not for those reasons
>
> MMMhhh, why not?
> If nowbody could send HTML/SCRIPT based mail we would not have to spend
> hours/days to
>
> * update virus infromation files
> * update virus software regulary
> * make sure that even the least knowledgeable user understands
>
> and spend less money on this and could spend money on research ...
the only time/money I spent on it was reading on mailing lists
and the newspaper about how bad it was.
In my opinion it was massively over hyped by the media and
probably fuelled by companies like Symantec/Norton etc.
It would be interesting to track their share prices, I'll
bet there's nice big peaks just after the "story broke" in
the meedja.
(update: I got curious and just looked up CommSec's web site
and Symantec was languishing a bit and heading down from 1st
May then around the 14th starting rapidly heading upwards and
peaked again a day or so ago. It's a pretty inaccurate graph
but nevertheless...)
Dave.
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