Hello Friends:

Watch out for one byproduct of the Outlook "winmail.dat virus" -- it can
choke up perfectly sound mail clients. These messages were the first to
choke off up the Unix mail server at my ISP, preventing me from reading
anything received after each one. A quick call to Qualcomm, makers of
Eudora, got me an updated version of the Mac client, a free update that
looks like it is innoculated against this latest Microsoft virus.

Bottom line: if winmail.dat files choke off your mail, better contact your
mail client provider for a fix. Microsoft isn't likely to move within 15
minutes to fix the problem like Qualcomm did.

Anybody want to tell me why Microsoft is so adept at releasing software
that does mischief like this, or exposes BCC addresses where anybody can
read them? Perhaps it's because of something that I read recently -- that
Bill Gates can "flood the Mac world with Microsoft products that only make
the decline and fall of the Mac all the more inevitable." I sure
experienced such a fall this morning -- awash in a flood of Microsoft gorp
which its mail programs generate,  because those programs are too complex
to configure for safe use. With "friends" of the Mac like Microsoft, we
don't need many enemies.


Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
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