On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As too often occurs, you've added much more to my post than was actually in it.
Have I written to you and done this before?
Look again: nowhere does it say that I have never had a virus on my hard drive; I have.
Then my assumption was correct, you did have a virus on your windows machine before.
I simply said that I have not made cash outlays to avoid them, to elimnate them, or fix any damage. I also did not say some kind of "cost" was not incurred; "cost" is often measured as time. Some small amount of time is invested. I use free virus scanners on a regular basis. I have backups of "important" files.
Thank you for sharing that, I was hoping that you would have. Like I said "I can understand doing it yourself."
My reply was a succinct, direct reponse to a likewise succinct, direct comment. When formulating a reply, I read nothing into the comment, nor attempted some type of exegesis.
miscdas
I was intrigued by the urban-legend comment. The implications that an urban-legend [probable metaphor] could be read from this:
If you move your email to Windows as well you'll pay far more than $75
dealing with viruses. ;) --
... this is a stretch to imply that there is not enough truth for $75 worth of damage to be considered unbelievable, especially for other people that can't fix things themselves. It is far more believable that defending operating systems on user-lists ever changes anyone's preferred decisions. I stopped counting Windows viruses after the number went over 10,000 many years ago; perhaps that is just an urban-legend comment as well.
