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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
Starshine Technical Services,
<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<p>The <a href="../issue28/tag_hoax.html">original message</a> referred to was
sent by Steve Wornham.</p>
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
align="left" border="0">&quot;Good Times&quot;
are Spread to the "Great Unwashed"</h3>
<p><strong>From Tim Gray on 03 May 1998
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Thank you for your section on hoaxes, I printed it out and posted it on
the bulliten board at work to educate the masses there... but there is
an interesting twist there.....
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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That's exactly what I'd hoped for.
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
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My company (that I work for not my own) uses microsoft outlook for
email, which wants to default to using microsoft word for email reading!
Another perfect example of a big company not thinking! read the email-
get a word macro virus! It is almost comical (From a developer piont of
view) but a nightmare for commercial users.
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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I thought I covered that. There is supposed to be some way to
<a href="http://www.nai.com/vinfo/t0117.asp">disable that
"autoexec" macro</a> in Word. Does that not work in the way that
Outlook calls Word (using OLE methods)?
<br><br>
Meanwhile its just another way to keep up the sales of
McAfee (now Network Associates, Inc) Anti-Virus and WebShield
products. [disclaimer: this is handy for me since I still
own some stock in them --- and handy for all my readers since
my sales of that stock has allowed me to be very lackadaisacal
about charging for my services]. BTW: Linux versions of some
<a http://www.nai.com/">NAI</a> AV products are available (for
environments where you want to use Linux server packages to help
protect your Windows and MS/PC-DOS clients).
<br><br>
There are many other AV products that available to help
prevent the propagation of PC virus' --- including the propagation
of Word, Excel, and Access macro virus'. Ultimately the
issue may become so prevalent that it pushes more users to the
relative security of Linux and other Unix based
<strong>client</strong> solutions.
<br><br>
<a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a>,
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome</a>,
<a href="http://www.gnustep.org/">GNUStep</a>, and
<a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html">LyX</a>
(among the free products) and
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/products/product-details.phtml?id=apx"
>Applixware</a>,
<a href="http://www.caldera.com/ivp/onlinecatalog/staroffice.html"
>Star Office</a>,
<a href="http://www.corel.com/">Corel</a>
<a href="http://www.corel.com/products/wordperfect/unix/platforms.htm"
>WordPerfect</a> for Linux, etc. should make that a much easier
pill to swallow (for typical PC users).
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
align="left" border="0">
Hmm, can we patch pine to su it's self and run binary attchments so that
linux can be as "good" as microsoft products? &lt;-- very bad joke I
admit... <img src="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" width="20" height="24" alt=":-)"
align="top">
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As I've pointed out in the past --- Unix has had these sorts
of problems in the past (with the autostart macros for 'vi'
and 'emacs' that were supported in the distant past).
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
align="left" border="0">
Just a little bit of info, you probably already know it ..
</strong></p>
<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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Most of it. It never ceases to amaze me how many
organizations are willing to force their employees to
use Outlook and Exchange when Eudora and Pegasus are
freely available and practically any kind of server can
support a decent POP services.
<br><br>
These simple methods (SMTP/POP on the servers and let
users use the client of their choice) have a proven
scalability and robustness that is unmatched. (As for
choices of features --- that's a matter for client
software).
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
align="left" border="0">
Thanks for a great column in the Gazzette!
</strong></p>
<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
align="left" border="0">
I'm glad you like it.
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
align="left" border="0">Timothy Replied...</H3>
<p><strong>From Timothy D. Gray on 4 May 1998
<br><br>
Thanks for your email, it was very informative.
Again thanks for what you do for the Linux community, without it it would
be a darker place.
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 29 June 1998</H5>
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