From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Mon Aug 13 17:18:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 00:18:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 829 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 00:18:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 00:18:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (140.186.114.245) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 00:18:44 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.111) for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:18:40 +0000 (UTC) To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-reply-to: <98.192886fe.28a9bd9b@aol.com> (pycyn@aol.com) Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? Reply-to: bob@rattlesnake.com References: <98.192886fe.28a9bd9b@aol.com> From: "Robert J. Chassell" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 9552 > It's neither, really. It's a function of their security models, which So it is about HOW they do things, not WHAT they do, .... Here is an example of what Robin means: today I received two private messages from people who did not intend to send them to me. The documents were not for me. I did not seek them. The authors of the documents did not install the patch to Microsoft Outlook Express that prevents their system from sending me these documents. My system is immune to this virus. Although my system can be broken into, in general it is more secure. (The last time I felt the consequences of a virus or worm was in 1988 and I mostly slept through that event.) For me it was simply a matter of receiving other people's private correspondence, which is not harmful to me, except I dislike the bother of deleting it. But I suspect the people who wrote the correspondence would prefer to preserve their privacy. ... That is going to make an emulator harder, though not impossible .... Various programmers have been working to emulate one of the Microsoft systems; the primary difficulties they have faced have been legal. Microsoft has changed its `public standards' frequently and without public notification. You are thinking technical (which is how many programmers think); but the issues are no longer primarily technical; they are legal. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com