OT: how about them news servers?! [sic]

[K. Shier]

when it was going so slow, i thought somebody was throttling my bandwidth!
but now my messages actually post within the same day! could the spammers &
virus distributors have dreamed that their actions would effectively
_improve_ our quality of service?

 

[James deBoer]

when it was going so slow, i thought somebody was throttling my bandwidth!
but now my messages actually post within the same day! could the spammers
& virus distributors have dreamed that their actions would effectively
_improve_ our quality of service?

Virus distributors? How about the makers of the crap mail programs that make
today's viruses possible?

 

[K. Shier]

actually i should have said 'distributors of malicious code', since i don't
really know _what_ they are trying to give away on that fake patch site. a
virus...? a trojan...? clients for 'the new napster'...? P)

anyway, the crap mail (and crap newsreader!) programs definitely make the
malicious code distributor's job easier, but i'm not buying into your
'people don't kill people, guns kill people!' theory any further than that!
=)