News from PANUG/BizNix - August 20, 2003
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PANUG PARTY

Tomorrow night is PANUG's Summer party. There will be
food, refreshments, and a trivia contest with prizes
for the winners. The party will at 6:15 pm at Novell's
office.

If you've not already RSVPed, please do so now by
responding to this message.


SWITCH

An interesting story about a company switching from
Microsoft desktops to Linux:

http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html


FEEDBACK

I have received 41 bounce messages from various email
servers because I (dale@microsharp.com) am the "sender"
of the virus. As far as I can tell all of the messages
are actually coming from one machine:
libp.library.gatech.edu (199.77.141.201). All of my
emails to gatech.edu get auto responses that they will
respond in 24 to 48 hours. I wonder how many rbls I will
be on by then?
Dale (the real dale@microsharp.com)


As much as I dislike Outlook, it's not fair to label
Sobig an Outlook virus. It's a Windows virus. A Windows
machine can be infected even if it doesn't have Outlook
on it.
 
The problem with spam isn't so much Windows as it is the
weakness of the Internet mail protocol. In the spam-filled
al-Qaida world we live in, it's simply not sufficient to
trust that everybody is telling the truth about where mail
is coming from and where replies should be sent.
Raymond L. Robert

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