From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] help, i'm in a wet paper bag and I can't get out
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:21:20 +0100
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>>you could always say "evil crackers attack vitanuova and steal very useful
>>inferno plugIn for IE" should get you on /. and that usually gets a few
>>converts ;)

i suspect we are more worried about ending up in the computing press
with ``vita nuova provides evil crackers with yet another nasty gateway into ...''.
admittedly a very big software company seems to get away with it,
but i suspect that's because they are very big software company, not
because they really got away with it.

in the interim, we'll probably go with an intermediate scheme that i think
will be adequate and be no more subtle for the user than anything else
on the net (ie, subtle enough but they should know by now).

we already did get a large number of downloads after mention on /.,
so that bit was easy.  ``don't they know how wrong this is?''
was one response.  i sometimes think that about computing.