-=> MILES MAXTED wrote to KURT WISMER <=-

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 KW> anyone actually derive benifit from them? is anyone even there?

 MM> I'm here, I read them and take precautions, but...

well, it's good to know that i'm not the only one here...

 KW> i'd like to see discussion here, i'd like to see people bring
 MM> up topics

 MM> ... I have little to add or contribute,  not being too interested
 MM> in the psychology of virus-creating nor the technology involved.

how about the ethics? perhaps not the ethics of virus writing but maybe
the ethics of researchers or vendors...

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

 KW> what can i, or we, do to help bring more discussion here?

 MM> Reverse the appeal of the WWW and its infernal groups !

 MM> Unfortunately,  your average human goes for comic picture comms at
 MM> the cost of bandwidth rather than swift and economic texting.

 MM> Find a way of reversing that and Fido will boom (and you could be
 MM> very rich)...

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

for example, rather than downloading a qwk packet everyday hoping to
find new messages (what a let down that would be) i keep tabs on VIRUS,
VIRUS_INFO, and DIRTY_DOZEN by way of RSS feeds from
http://fidonet.sensationcontent.com that i read in the bloglines
web-based feed reader (http://www.bloglines.com)...

on top of that, i use the web-based interface at
http://www.docsplace.org to upload and download my qwk packets, and of
course where else but the web am i going to find a qwk compatible
offline mail reader?

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