Hoping for a good show.

From: Jeff Relf (Usenet_2__at_JeffRelf.Cotse.NET)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: 19 Sep 2004 15:56:55 GMT

Hi Rex Ballard,

You wrote: <<

  ...standards are established
  by groups representing industry vendors, corporate consumers,
  and others who invest in long-term management of information.
>>

People want to run MS Office
  and all the other billions of dollars worth of software
  and hardware that target only the Windows _ Standard _.

  Governments, of all people,
  can certainly afford such a " Luxury "...

  As I witnessed at the welfare agency ( WA's DSHS ).

It does no good to argue which standard is " better "...
  e.g. TCP/IP vs. MS Office.

  That's like comparing apples and oranges.

I loaded Win XP Service Pack 2 a while back,
  and it harmed nothing.

  I use Visual Studio 2003 and have a broadband connection.

I know my Win XP box inside and out,
  and I never have any problems with spam or viruses.

I'm using a valid e-mail address to post this,
  Usenet_2_@JeffRelf.Cotse.NET,
  and the _ Only _ spam I get is from some Linux zealot
  who e-mails me the same " Microsoft Update "
  every God-Damned day...
  along with an occasional HTML-only message
  that pretends to be " bounced mail ".
  ( From another Linux zealot, no doubt, aiming at Outlook )

The HTML-only message automatically hits my bit-bucket
  faster than greased lighting.

The Linux Zealot's spam gives me a chuckle every time I see it,
  so I allow part of it through...

  As it reminds me of that old Korean pilot
  who would fly his rickety old plane
  at the same time every day to bomb the M.A.S.H. guys.

  Hawkeye and the crew were always there waiting,
  hooch in hand, with big targets drawn...

  Hoping for a good show.

Never in my life have I run anti-virus software.

  Removing Norton Anti-virus was the first thing I did
  after buying my HP Presario at Office Depot.

Moz FireFox 1.0 is light-years ahead of IE6,
  and I use my own hand-rolled newsreader,
  along with Microsoft Word 2000... not Outlook.

  For composing e-mails and such,
  I'll eventually replace Word with my own code.

But Linux won't run the software I write...

  Because I want it to reach _ The Masses _...

  And millions of versions of Linuxes can't do that.

Capisce ?

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