"Dr David Hingston" <dlh@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> I assume, hamish, you refer to security.

Yes, my comment was oblique, but I thought it was pretty clear.

> I believe it easiest and cheapest
> to run an old box, separately, to access the internet.
> It is hard for any virus to penentrate a lack of connection

Isn't that absence of vector in your trade David <grin>? Or is the Dr not
medical?

> I'd be interested to hear any comments on such "firewalls", particularly of
> any more cost effective options.

I would say the efficacy of your prophylactic measures, the air gap cordon
sanitaire, is extremely high.

> David Hingston

Hamish.

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Received on Fri Jul 9 07:32:24 1999