AmigaActive (618/1947)

From:Andrew Crowe
Date:17 Apr 2001 at 12:50:34
Subject:Re: Paranoid?

Hi Alan

> i wish Urban had gone ahead with something we discussed 2 years ago -
> author upload protection.... this would stop 3rd parties uploading hacked
> versions of software..which has now occurred 5 times int he past year..and
> is the reason you have to go to the authors homepage to download the
> latest version a LOT of times :-(

I dunno, with something the size of Aminet it'd be a nightmare to set
up/maintain, especially if you're working on it in your spare time

> what about people who install these utils and dont read the news? They'll
> be email-bombing haage-partner for years :-(

Or until a new (genuine) version is uploaded to aminet :)

What does the Trojan say this time btw? Last time they were "complaining" to
Amiga.com for basing the new AmigaOS on Linux, dunno what the big deal is
this time

Andrew

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