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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
: 
: So who would you sue for the Morris worm that took advantage of a
: similar hole in sendmail?

Microsoft doesn't make a noticable effort to warn you about the
possibly lethal power of VBScript, used per default in a client
program with other interesting default wrt personal/company data.
To me that is the important point in  John's message.

-georg