Le vendredi 23 Juillet 2004 22:06, John Keown a écrit :
First of all I am in the US. I sometimes forget these are international
list.
Yes it is ;-)
Yes windows is the problem but not for the reason you spell out. Yes
windows does have some security problems but so do all operating systems.
The main problem with windows is it world wide acceptance. The spammers and
virus writers concentrate on windows as it has the most potential to create
the zombies because of the vast market share.
Up until about two years ago almost all viruses were for windows. Recently
both Mac and Linux need to now have limited virus protection. As the market
share shifts they will need better and better virus protection.
Well, it seems you are recitating a press release coming from Redmond ;-)
(Or from <put-your-favourite-antivirus-company-name-here> which is looking for
a way to increase its market)
I strongly disagree with most if not all of this, but I believe discussing
these points further would be really off-topic on this list, so I will
refrain.
I am not saying we should pick on the little guy or charity but I am saying
many of the small mailservers and administrators are not doing their users
a favor when they can easily contract for a mail server from a qualified
company and yet have full control to add and delete users, add forwards,
alias and etc. You would not let an unqualified person drive your car so
why would you let an unqualified person run a mail server.
I believe you are making a serious confusion between being small/poor vs.
big/rich and qualified vs. clueless.
I know many customers who shift from big providers to small ones, because with
big providers they are just "customer #468512365, please dial * then listen
to the music then dial 3 then dial 8 then listen to 5 more minutes of music
if you really want to talk to some underpaid human being who doesn't give a
shit...", where at a small, local provider, they are at "Hello, Mr. Smith,
how are you ?" and always find the same interlocutors that pay attention to
their needs and remarks.
Probably a question of philosophy.
P.S.: By respect to the netiquette, could you be so kind to avoid quoting
several useless pages from the precedent message, signature and list-footer
included, that gets sents to all the subscribers to this list in a big waste
of bandwidth ?
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Michel Bouissou <michel(_at_)bouissou(_dot_)net> OpenPGP ID 0xDDE8AC6E