Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 22:24:32 +0000 From: Guido.J.Braem@bio.uni-giessen.de To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1365$foo@default> Subject: Viruses and CP List.
I have been using a pc since the mid eighties and in spite of all the
warnings I have got, and all the times that 'specialist' have
convinced me to check my system, I have never had any virus. And I
have used a large variety of programmes and files from a large
variety of provenances.
I am not saying that Computer viruses dont exist, but the scare is greatly,
greatly overexaggerated. And to those claiming that you can get a
'virus' just by downloading an e-mail message, I wish to say: 'cut
out that nonsense'. The people that make such claims that are often people with
something I would like to call 'pseudoknowledge'. These people, just
like those who have 'pseudoknowledge' about plants, are more
dangerous than the object of the 'scares' they tell stories about.
About this list.
This list, just as the Orchid List Digest is deteriorating. If the
listowners do not want to have the professionals opt out, they will
have to scrutinise the messages.
And to language. The language of the Internet is 'English' (with or
without typos). So please keep the messages in that language.
Otherwise we will end up with 27 different languages and no-one will
be able to understand all the messages. I could send messages in 4
languages (and a couple of dialects as an encore). I doubt whether
that is what we want.
keep this list to plants questions, and I mean, that is what it is
there for.
Regards
G.J.B.
Dr. Guido J. Braem ---- Plant Taxonomist
Naunheimer Str. 17
D-35633 Lahnau
Germany
Tel. [+49](6441]65333
Fax [+49](6441)65334
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