[pianotech] Re: new list features

[David M. Porritt]

Ron:

Zone Alarm, Norton Anti-virus, and a hardware router/firewall will do
it.  I haven't had any trouble from any of those.  You know, I'll bet
there's a news group, or web site that gives information about these
kinds of business/marketing practices that are so annoying.  Anyone
know where?

dave

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On 9/11/2002 at 12:38 PM Ron Nossaman wrote:

>>So, Ron, is that a 286 or a 386 that they'll have to pry your cold,
dead 
>>fingers off of. Whatever it is, it hasn't stuck you in the category
of 
>>"can't make a filter or a mailbox".
>
>No, I'm running a 700mhz box with Win 2000, professional edition
(whatever 
>exactly that's supposed to mean), and software that's not that far
out of 
>date, even though it's true you can't still smell the shrink wrap.
It just 
>seems that every other week, I'm allowed the necessity of software
>upgrades 
>because last year's no longer works with the file formats and
conventions 
>of this year's, or the timed self destruct date has passed. For the
last 
>few weeks now, Mcaffe has been popping up a "reminder" every time I
boot 
>up, telling me I have to go to their web site and buy an upgrade.
This
>must 
>be manually cancelled each time for the boot to proceed. No, it's
not a 
>matter of updating the DAT file, it's an insistence that I buy an
upgrade. 
>Since this "reminder" has started appearing, I'm no longer "allowed"
to 
>view or edit my firewall access list either. This sort of crap is
becoming 
>the norm rather than the exception, and I for one resent it. It
offends
>me. 
>I don't treat my customers this way, and I think I should get the
same 
>consideration when I'm the customer. If that makes me a
technological 
>troglodyte, hanging on to the past in hysterical horror, then that
is what 
>I will apparently be forevermore. No, maybe that isn't the same
category
>as 
>"can't make a filter or mailbox", but I can't call it progress
either.
>
>When I finally give up and bite the bullet of starting all over
again from 
>scratch yet another time, I'll see what's available in good
antivirus and 
>firewall and write Mcaffe off for this lifetime. Maybe Zone alarm
will
>work 
>with my present system, it wouldn't with my previous one. That is,
if 
>Mcaffe will graciously allow me to uninstall it without trashing
something 
>else. Then I'll waste whatever time it takes to get it "working" as
I'd 
>like - assuming that's possible. I realize I could save time, money,
and 
>trouble by just closing my eyes and forking over the paltry ransom
for the 
>"upgrade", but this marketing method thoroughly offends me. Sure,
maybe I 
>could thrash around in the registry and find and exorcise the
outward 
>indications and "reminders", but I have no idea what creatively
conceived 
>secondary affects that might induce, and I'm not that enthusiastic
about 
>reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything from scratch
>again. 
>Besides, I'm not interested in becoming an operating system expert.
I
>don't 
>think tools should argue with me. I just want the bloody thing to
shut up, 
>stay out of my way, and let me get on with what I'm trying to do
without 
>arbitrarily biting me in the butt. When I have to buy software to
protect 
>me from the Internet, why can't I buy software to protect me from
the 
>software I've already bought? I'd buy that.
>
>Ron N
>
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@mail.smu.edu
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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