[pchelpers] Re: Zone Alarm

Hi Robert,

Thursday, September 25, 2003, 7:05:09 AM, you wrote:

RM> I believe Scott was 'bashing' Microsoft, Ellen.  When I first read it I was
RM> going to fire back a reply but didn't but perhaps I could give a thought
RM> here.

RM> When a person goes to war they don't drive an off the lot car, they drive a
RM> Humvee or a tank.  But when we drive to work in our little town we don't
RM> drive a tank.  AND which car is best, Ford or Chevy?

RM> Obviously, the 'real' email program' is the one that we like and that works
RM> with our system and that is easy for us to use.   As is true for the tank so
RM> for the Ford, they both need to be serviced and kept up or they both will
RM> fail.

Microsoft blundered when they added HTML support to email.  They
already had RTF support for their corporate systems, so there wasn't
much need to add HTML support, and it would have been vastly more
secure.  As it is, many of the IE holes are automatically also
Outlook/Outlook Express holes also.

--Scott.

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