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Re: The home user problem returns
From: Mason Schmitt <mason () schmitt ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:13:39 -0700
"Why are users expecting to get E-mails from banks where they don't have accounts?See the pessimist in my replies that it's cause more folks are anticipating their wealth and fortune being tied to some gross error of an employee of such and institution granting them full access to some millions that appears to have laid dormant for a few years time. I'n otherwords most folks have a bit of the take it and run ethics builtin...it explains to my mind quite well why the 911 scams never seem to be slowed in the slightest... User education often runs counter to fighting human greed...
In my previous email, I said that there are two ways in which a person changes. In my opinion, the people to whom you refer are going to have to endure a lot of pain before they decide to change. That's one of the great things about pain - for those that want it, it's never in short supply. Pain can be a great teacher. -- Mason _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: The home user problem returns, (continued)
- Re: The home user problem returns Chris Blask (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Paul D. Robertson (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Chris Blask (Sep 14)
- RE: The home user problem returns Paul Melson (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Eugene Kuznetsov (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Paul Melson (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Mason Schmitt (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Paul Melson (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns R. DuFresne (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Mason Schmitt (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Paul Melson (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Paul D. Robertson (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Mason Schmitt (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Tina Bird (Sep 13)
- RE: The home user problem returns Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 13)
- Re: The home user problem returns Mason Schmitt (Sep 14)
- Re: The home user problem returns R. DuFresne (Sep 13)
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