[GUFSC] texto para CD?: Friends don't let friends use Outlook

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

Achei este texto interessante. Que tal colocá-lo no CD?

Alguém poderia traduzí-lo e/ou resumí-lo/melhorá-lo?

Obrigado.


Ricardo.


Fonte: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/16/1552233.shtml

  	Friends don't let friends use Outlook  	
	
	
	Monday June 23, 2003 - [ 03:51 PM GMT ]
Topic - Open Source

- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller -
I'm sure Outlook and Outlook Express have many fine features, but they 
also have many fine vulnerabilities. Even though I run Linux and can't 
get infected by the many email worms and viruses sent to me every day by 
unwary Outlook users, they suck up a lot of bandwidth, which is 
especially annoying when I'm using a phone modem in a hotel room instead 
of my home/office DSL connection. So please, let's get together and try 
to stamp out Outlook.

Mozilla has a fine email utility, you know. And Mozilla is available for 
Windows, so even if we can't get our Windows-using friends to switch to 
Linux, we should at least try to get them to use Mozilla for their 
email. (They'll get a better browser, too.)

You'd think it would be easy to 'sell' something free to people, but 
never underestimate the power of inertia.

"If Outlook Express was good enough for grandpa, then dagburnit, it 
ought to be good enough for me," is an all-too-human sentiment.

Luckily, Mozilla gives us plenty of ammunition that can help break 
through this attitude-wall. Here are some of the features it offers:

     * Won't download or pass on most viruses or worms
     * Amazingly easy, 'click on the button' junk email filtering
     * Built-in popup ad blocker
     * Can handle multiple email accounts, no problem
     * Won't download or pass on most viruses or worms
     * Lets you turn off annoying animated GIF ads (or set them to only 
cycle once, if you like)
     * You know those sites that take over your whole screen? Mozilla 
can stop them from doing that!
     * Won't download or pass on most viruses or worms

You can buy utilities that accomplish most of these functions if you use 
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook or Outlook Express.

Or you can move to Mozilla and get them for free, especially if you're a 
home or small business computer user who isn't locked into a 
corporate-mandated Microsoft Exchange server -- although there are 
plenty of browser-accesible email/groupware products that can provide 
Exchange's essential functions, almost always for less money and with 
lighter server hardware requirements.

But we're not talking about ourselves here, are we? We already know 
about (and use) Mozilla and other alternatives to Outlook and Outlook 
Express, don't we?

Our task is not to convert ourselves, but to convert friends who are 
still stuck with Outlook because they don't know any better, not only to 
give them a more pleasant Internet experience, but to help cut down the 
spread of email viruses and worms that waste bandwidth for everyone, 
even enlightened Linux and F/OSS users like us.