From: "Tumbleweed" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Good online banking
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:59:27 +0100


"Tim"  wrote in message
news:cg6tp3$psc$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> > > "David Marsh" wrote
> > > > A newsreader which allows ... attachments to be
> > > > run automatically, ..., can also be said to be broken.
> > >
> > "Tim" wrote
> > > I'd say that it is an incredibly useful feature.  One that saves an
> awful
> > > amount of time & is helpful to many businesses (& other users!).
> >
> "Tumbleweed" wrote
> > LOL, unless you mean the businesses and
> > users which use viruses to propagate spam.
>
> No - obviously, simply the businesses & users which want quick access to
an
> attachment, for high efficiency reasons ...
>


Any such 'efficiency' (goodness, you'd have to wait an extra second to click
on an attachment) must be outweighed by a factor of several thousand by the
effect of viruses. Even one virus would outdo any supposed good of not
having to check what an attachment is.

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Tumbleweed

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