I wrote:

>Just buy a VESOFT product and use GOD :-)

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:15:56 -0500, "Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER"
<[log in to unmask]> writes (in response to my one-liner):

>I call such programs Satan.
>
>Consider my experience with a previous company (now liquidated): this
>fruit makes one like God (but not God), granting one the knowledge of
>good and evil. Having eaten it, they knew that they were naked, and,
>based on their response when this was pointed out, were ashamed, and
>tried to hide and take measures to cover their nakedness. These fig
>leafs (use of a lockword that they then embedded in job streams and
>account UDCs) proved inadequate. They therefore were cast out of the
>garden of a secure system, to bring forth new programs only with great
>pain, and to sweat for their bread on a system that frequently yielded
>thorns and thistles instead of information. Then one day, they died.
>
>Good thing that this text is in the public domain.
>
>Opinions are mine.

Whoa!  That one was way over my head!  Does anyone have an idea of
what's going on here?  Gregory, are you casting aspersions at VESOFT?
I may be incredibly dense, but I'm lost!

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