-> do with E-Mail. A TC> macro can me send via E-Mail (any E-Mail
-> application will do this) but TC> an "E-mail virus" does not exits.
-> If I send an E-Mail to someone using TC> MS Mail they cannot become
-> infected by purely reading that E-Mail. Rod's TC> right... talking
-> about "E-Mail viruses" only serves to spread the rumors TC> that they
-> exist (they do not).
->
-> "E-Mail viruses".. my comment. Number one. Anyone who says,  "NEVER",
-> has bothe a negative attitude, and lacks a creative mind, AND is
Good thing I only said they don't exist, then.
-> very vulnerable to exploit. Seconedly, when you say  "e-mail".. What
-> the hell does that even mean?   Heres a brillians thought. What if
-> I'm a programmer and I create a e-mail program which is widely
-> distributed worldwide which has the capabaility to run programs or
-> scripts directly from e-mail?  So that right their makes it possible,
-> its just a matter of what e-mail program your talking about (this
-> doesnt really apply to  "BBS Software because I dont think any BBS
-> software lets you execute files from e-mail that would be ludicrous,
-> especially under DOS or OS/2).
In that case it would become apparent that you have not followed this
thread from the beginning or you would know that you are had gone full
circle, back to the beginning. E-Mail means "electronic mail". For the
purpose of this discussion it's text based messages. The topic that's
been banned from this echo is stating that a virus can become active by
READING it. The reason why it's off-topic is that some people don't seem
to be able to comprehend that READING E-Mail is something different then
"running" or "launching" the message using another program. Sound
familar? No matter how cyrstal clear the point is made someone always
seems to come along and say "Yea, but what about "reading" the E-mail
with a program that launches it"? These people only continue the farce
and confusion. Again, for the record: That is *** NOT *** READING
E-mail! It's running code, period! I can READ that SAME code and
*NOTHING* will happen!
-> Just one last obvious though,... and what if one wanted to activate a
-> file, NOT through an "attached file", but rather by directly reading
-> e-mail, lets say I create an e-mail program that can directly read C
-...
-> on-line). The e-mail program could begine the compilation when it
-> encounters a special symbol in the e-mail program (part of a
- ...
Then it's still apparent that you don't know the differance between
compiling and reading.
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