Re: [fw-wiz] Annoying pop-ups

From: Gregory Austin (gaustin@rkon.com)
Date: 10/29/02 

To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
From: Gregory Austin <gaustin@rkon.com>
Date: Tue Oct 29 12:37:00 2002

Mikael,

      While I generally despise Microsoft, I don't think it's fair to call
having a messenger service a newfangled evil. RPC.rwalld's been around on
most POSIX systems forever. Personally I see this messenger service spam
business as a non-issue. To me, anybody who is affected by it is just
paying up their stupidity tax when they have to click ok. With all the
free or cheap personal firewall software available there isn't a whole lot
of excuse for anybody to get hit by this traffic from the Internet--not
even home users (and if this traffic is getting to them, pop-ups could
easily be the least of their problems).

Greg

At 04:12 PM 10/29/2002 +0100, Mikael Olsson wrote:

>Please peruse the below link to learn about the newfangled evil
>that spammers and microsoft have inflicted upon us:
>
>http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/

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Greg is, among other things, a moron.
Anything he has said above is solely his
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