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Old 11-26-2004, 08:15 AM  
dcortez
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Eudora (paid version).

The problem I found with most MS apps is that they are too seamless in their 'active' interpretation of MIME types.

This has become the favourite playground of hackers and virus developers, because the spirit of MS technology seems to be to share all the powerful OS goodies with its apps through APIs.

This is a pretty sad situation. As a developer since late seventies, I have never seen a richer set of functions and app-accessible utilities through an OS, but the exploitation of this has made all these coveted capabilities dangerous to use 'actively'.

-Dino
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