Front Page for forms solution?

"Brian Wakem" <no.RemoveThis@email.com> wrote in message
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> BG wrote:
>
>> Hackers that turn forms into spam relays should be caught and drawn and
>> quartered. For us non-programmers that just occassionally use a form on
>> a
>> website here and there and move on and forget them, wouldn't this be a
>> good
>> place to employ the Microsoft army to cover our backs? Microsoft
>> together
>> with the isp that offers the MS server have a vested interest in
>> protecting forms from spam relay attacks and I assume they are monitoring
>> this minute
>> by minute. Come to think of it, I have never had that type of attack
>> coming from any Front Page form, but I have been compromised on other
>> scripts. What do you think?
>
>
> Microsoft's track record on security is well documented so I wont rant.
>
> If they did come up with something they'd probably market it a 'new
> technology' and try to sell it to you for several hundred dollars.
>
> It's a bit like someone beating you over the head with a baseball bat and
> then offering you a paracetamol for a tenner.

I understand your wrath toward M$, but the reality is that they have
hundreds or thousands of people employed to protect their security. I get
security patches almost constantly from M$, but I've never gotten the first
one from the little Australian software developer that created my CGI
scripting program. They could care less - they already have my money. With
FP and the ISP host, if their script becomes compromised the financial
damages could be quite severe for their interests which are so much greater
than mine. So by marrying my interests with theirs I can feel so much safer
than trying to write my own script or use any individual's software
solution. Thanks for the comment.

BG
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BG wrote:

> I understand your wrath toward M$, but the reality is that they have
> hundreds or thousands of people employed to protect their security.

That should tell you *something*.

> I get security patches almost constantly from M$,

...and so should that. Something like those hundreds or thousands of
employees aren't doing it right the first time.

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And lo, Beauregard T. Shagnasty didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> BG wrote:
>
>> I understand your wrath toward M$, but the reality is that they have
>> hundreds or thousands of people employed to protect their security.
>
> That should tell you *something*.
>
>> I get security patches almost constantly from M$,
>
> ..and so should that. Something like those hundreds or thousands of
> employees aren't doing it right the first time.

Butler: <annoyed> This gas line was installed *backwards* yesterday.
Please fix it!

Larry: "Don't worry, we always fix it right the second time."


Grey
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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous.TakeThisOut@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> BG wrote:
>
>> I understand your wrath toward M$, but the reality is that they have
>> hundreds or thousands of people employed to protect their security.
>
> That should tell you *something*.
>
>> I get security patches almost constantly from M$,
>
> ..and so should that. Something like those hundreds or thousands of
> employees aren't doing it right the first time.

So, just curious, what operating system do you use - unix?
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BG wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous.RemoveThis@example.invalid> wrote
>> BG wrote:
>>
>>> I understand your wrath toward M$, but the reality is that they have
>>> hundreds or thousands of people employed to protect their security.
>>
>> That should tell you *something*.
>>
>>> I get security patches almost constantly from M$,
>>
>> ..and so should that. Something like those hundreds or thousands of
>> employees aren't doing it right the first time.
>
> So, just curious, what operating system do you use - unix?

No. I haven't used Unix since about 1988.

--
-bts
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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous.DeleteThis@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> BG wrote:
>
>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous.DeleteThis@example.invalid> wrote
>>> BG wrote:
>>>
>>>> I understand your wrath toward M$, but the reality is that they have
>>>> hundreds or thousands of people employed to protect their security.
>>>
>>> That should tell you *something*.
>>>
>>>> I get security patches almost constantly from M$,
>>>
>>> ..and so should that. Something like those hundreds or thousands of
>>> employees aren't doing it right the first time.
>>
>> So, just curious, what operating system do you use - unix?
>
> No. I haven't used Unix since about 1988.

(mental note to self - never provide a yes / no out to an information
gathering question) My potential son-in-law got us laughing at dinner last
night, talking about how teachers, trying to ascertain whether a student is
listening or not, will invariably say something like; "Have you heard a word
I've said? What did I just say?" He said he always responded with "say".
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Charles Sweeney wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote
>
>> BG wrote:
>>> So, just curious, what operating system do you use - unix?
>>
>> No. I haven't used Unix since about 1988.
>
> Oh you (ever so slightly pedantic) tease!!!

<lol!>

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
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BG wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous.TakeThisOut@example.invalid> wrote
>> BG wrote:
>>> So, just curious, what operating system do you use - unix?
>>
>> No. I haven't used Unix since about 1988.
>
> (mental note to self - never provide a yes / no out to an information
> gathering question) ...

So do you want to rephrase? <g>

"So, just curious, what operating system do you use?"

Win2K and Kubuntu.

"Why Windows" is your next question? Because there is no Linux version
of Visual FoxPro, and I really like my newsreader which is also a
Windows-only application, and I haven't found a Linux reader I like.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
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