(Including the Vanagon list as this got me all sorts of flame mail, as MS
advocacy tends to do to me..)

I realize my comments may have been a bit on the harsh side, and I would
like to apologize. I'm not quite at my best before my morning coffee. ;-)

Here's a quick link to information about my statements. I have more at home
that I can dig up later, but a little googling will find them.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jun/gee20030605020295.htm

Thanks,

Don Preston
'87 Wolfy GL ASI
~Betsy the Mp3 Bus~

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel L. Walters [mailto:samuel.walters@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:32 AM
To: Don Preston

Don,

I don't use Outlook for the very reason that so many try to attack it
because they hate MS, but I do keep Norton AntiVirus loaded and have it
updated daily.  I also get all of the MS patches within a day or two of
when they notify me of them.

I think that since so many computer "experts" continuously state that
Linux rarely if ever gets hit by viruses, that I want to ask you what is
the source of your allegation about Linux and virus attacks - you didn't
do any better in documentation of your assertion than the person you
criticized.

I don't mean that to sound hostile, but as a request for information,
because I frequently think about setting up at least one computer with
Linux.  For a number of years, I regularly read computer magazines, but
now don't very often so I could have missed obvious sources of this
information.   But this is the first time I have ever heard or read the
assertion you make and I have heard and read the contrary dozens and
dozens of times.

But, I have no problem with gaining new information and changing a
perception.

Thanks in advance,

Sam

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