From: Gene McAloon 

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:01:45 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>"Gene McAloon"  wrote:
Granted, from your
>perspective these are important and
>> even potentially devastating issues, but from the reasonably savvy home
>user's
>> point of view they are not. It is as simple as that.
>
>OTOH, if the Geo's of the world are facing devastating issues and I, as a
>reasonably savvy home user, am depending on my ISP for access or my host for
>my Web site, then am I not facing an equally (and even more powerless)
>devastation if and when the sophistication of the virii surpasses that
>currently being released?
>

The fact is Geo and others do not face devastating issues. They may believe
or even prefer to believe they do, but they do not. I believe what we are
seeing here is a touch of paranoia along with a grossly exaggerated view of
what could happen and its consequences.

On the other hand, if the whole internet were to disappear tomorrow it
would mean little to me. I would just go back to what I was doing long
before the internet became part of my life. In effect, Geo needs it. He has
built his life around it. To me, not only the internet but computers in
general are nothing more than conveniences - when they are not an
annoyance.

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