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Re: Virus warnings /Mail Programs

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On 15 Dec 99, at 15:43, Richard Callwood III wrote:

	For any who don't like the offerings of Microsoft or Netscape in the Mail 
reading and writing department, two excellent choices are Pegasus Mail (free 
with no advertising) and Eudora (advertiser sponsored).  Both are way better 
and less vulnerable than the Big Two.
 
> Ah, another entry for my big file of reasons for avoiding Outhouse
> Express.  Aside from its being the explicit target of most of the new
> worms, it also suffers from Micro$oft Codependence Syndrome: it does
> everything for you, whether you like it or not.

> I would recommend subscribing to your anti-virus software's mailing
> list, if they have one.  That way, you won't have worry about hoaxes or
> rely upon hearsay in gardening lists for such critical information.

	Excellent advice I wish more would follow.  My sister-in-law receives virus 
hoaxes because she's on someone's mailing list, and unfortunately I'm on 
her now over forty recipients of the same hoaxes.  It's mind-boggling..
                             
gardening in East Uniacke Nova Scotia, Canada Zone 5


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