On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:10:13 GMT, "
wrote:

Interesting.
So, do you still use Windows with a replacement for Outlook Express
together with the link that you pointed to or do you pay for extra computor
protection?

I abandoned the home versions of Windows long long ago (I use Win2000
Pro). I got it pretty cheap as a computer upgrade, all I had to do
was buy some hardware to qualify, and I bought the hard disk that I
have it running on right now, in the old system (just added it as
drive two, and use the original drive for storage).

I have NEVER used Outlook Express. I bought Agent after using Free
Agent for a year. I wanted to combine my News reader with a Mail
reader that had very good filters. Those filters, once I trained
them, act like bug zappers and automatically trash Spam. I have 8
filters that steer acceptable email to different folders; I have 10
filters that deletes porn; I have 4 filters that ignore odds and ends
that I can look at if I want (but ends up in the trash anyway). Agent
is $35 and I've been using it for 8 years.

I am also using Firefox now (it lit up in seconds where Netscape
stumbled along). I also use Agnitum Outpost Firewall (free version).
It always lets me know when some piece of trash wants to call home. I
say no, and then take out the trash.

I must admit that I thought everything was as one should expect until I used
the free ' adware' to check how clean or dirty the computor was and I was
really shocked. Fortunately with the help of an inserted disc I am able to
run my antenna programs in what I see as a DOS emulator which allows me to
use high speed processing without the fear
of outside interference and slow down. I have heard that Netscape has its
problems but does not have enough useage
to attract bad guys and commercial collectors.

That has nothing to do with it. It is the "features" of IE and OE
that are the back doors to the system. Do you want to share your
printer with the world? MS thinks you do, and has designed this into
their OS as a special feature for your "benefit."

Tho I have done computor
programming in Fortran and the like in the old days when we used punched
tape I must admit to being totally illiterate when computors changed over to
pre caned programming to which I turned up my nose too, only to find I was
quickly left behind and not adaptable to change.

It just runs faster. Being bigger means no one person really
understands it all. When the operating systems were 15,000 bytes big,
you could figure it out in a weekend. Multiply that by a million
weekends. Only Chinese teenagers have that kind of patience.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC