Re: Article Announcement: Can Microsoft End Spam?

Ok, can of worms now officially opened <g>

As both an educator and consultant, I don't agree so much with your idea of education as the best prevention. I agree that education is important. However:

1. You have to keep training new people, and re-training existing staff.
2. When a new "threat" comes out, how easy is it to immediately train everyone?
3. While I agree that most people are good-intentioned, it's just not in most end-users' mindset, priority, or otherwise, to keep in mind what you trained them on three weeks ago while they're attempting to do their primary job, helping customers, reporting to bosses, etc.
4. With respect to application programming, it is often the case that whey an end-user does something wrong, the programmers jump on the user for their error. I am of the belief that if the programmer let this happen, it's their fault. In other words, IMHO, it is up to the technologists to prevent users from doing what they should not do.

Just my $.02.

Mike Alexander wrote:

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