On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Bill Landry wrote: > > For me, the lesson I take is to always be aware of the laws in your > > locality. And the policies of the software you use. > > Oh yeah, and I bet you read the public notifications in your local paper
"Be aware of the laws" != "read the public notifications in your local paper every day" However, up until this law changed, I did monitor the announcements for the area my business is in, as it's in a redevelopment zone. And I just rent. Just to beat this example to death a little more: Port Chester was a rehabilitation zone at the time, so it's not like the condemnation was out of the blue. Obviously the law sucked, but this shouldn't have been a shock to anyone in the real estate industry either. Everyone had choices - move out of Port Chester where there isn't a rehab zone, move out of NY where public notice laws were saner, find a Real Estate attourny who has one of his clerks scan the papers every day and notify his clients if there is an issue (sort of like -- running Nagios) Again, I disagree with the Clam teams stance on when clamd should die, like I disagree with the sucky notification laws. But -- I CHOOSE to use the software anyway, like I chose to live in NY state. Make the choice, live with it. What I say is wrong is running software where you don't know the policies of the authors -- or living in a state where you don't know the laws. Doing so and getting bit by it is your own damn fault. One other quote comes to mind. During the PMRC trials, Al Gore asked Dee Snider if he thought it was reasonable to expect parents to listen to every album their kids bought. Dee's response, "Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It's very hard". I would say the same about running a mail server, and subscribing to the announce lists of all the software you run. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
