G'morning Kurt,

 KW> how about the ethics?

Surely there can be no doubt in that area - the very name of 
`virus' is self-declaratory in the ethical sense...

 KW> perhaps not the ethics of virus writing but maybe
 KW> the ethics of researchers or vendors...

Altruism seems to be an important evolutionary trait - righting 
wrongs is truistically ethical ...

 KW> then there's strategy and tactics... you take precautions but how did
 KW> you arrive at the strategies you employ? are they as strong as they
 KW> could be? are there chinks in the armour you weren't aware of?

My military training says there are always chinks...

 KW> funny you should mention that... while i don't think i can reverse the
 KW> appeal of the web, i can show people how to use it to participate
 KW> here...

 KW> http://www.docsplace.org to upload and download my qwk packets, and of
 KW> course where else but the web am i going to find a qwk compatible
 KW> offline mail reader?

Heh ... my dial-up gets me a QWK a day whether the `net is up or 
down, and my kindly Maxi carries all the latest OLR's; local calls 
in NZ cost nothing, but I'd not be online for more than 1 minute a 
day.

 KW> the greater appeal of the web is not so big an obstacle to
 KW> participating here as one might think... if that is all that we need to
 KW> overcome, there are certainly possibilities...

I fear that hitting a local phone number up for a QWK one doesn't 
appeal to faddish users - I teach classes of beginners who can hit 
their Internet buttons without fail to get my instructional PDF's,  
but who are incapable of winning significant prizes by dialling up 
a local phone number with Hyperterm,  even after direct coaching 
in class ....

Never underestimate the power of the fad and innovation...

Miles.

 
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