Re: Virus Resistive Software (talk about Ada Advocacy)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"James A. Krzyzanowski" <James_A_Krzyzanowski@raytheon.com> wrote in message
news:3F4D0C25.CFF0E38F@raytheon.com...
> Is it possible that if Outlook never existed and Mozilla was the de facto
> standard used by millions of people around the world that the creators of
> viruses & worms would seek out the possible vulnerabilities that exist in
> Mozilla but have not yet be exploited?
>
> Is it possible that Outlook is simply analogous to "VHS" in the "VHS vs.
> Beta Wars"?

Exactly.

> ...is it possible to be an "Ada proponent" yet be one who has succumbed to
> the MicroSoft dark side?

Of course. I like to eat and have a roof. Thus we built Claw and Janus/Ada
on and for Windows. I don't know if I'd say "succumbed", but there is only
so much tilting at windmills that one can do. Ada by itself provides plenty
of that...

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In any case, my opinion is that the mail client is irrelevant. The junk
should never get to the client in the first place. We do all of our
filtering on the mail server (much of the filtering software is written in
Ada as a plugin for our server), and the choice of mail clients don't matter
much.

If more people (and ISPs) filtered this junk at the server, we'd have a lot
less of it, because people would learn not to send it. Now, I see
"newsletters" that are so stuffed with graphics and scripts and junk that
you can hardly find the message.

Sigh. But that will never happen -- people want lots of pretty pictures, not
matter what it does to their systems.

                            Randy.