[Spambayes] Binaries for MSwin

[Terrel Shumway]

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 15:22, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > > Add the Outlook binary installer as part of the release?  Absolutely!
>
> Sounds fine to me - except I would raise the bar a little - why not make a
> pop3propxy *binary* release for Windows too - then the problem becomes
> moot- on Windows you get a binary.

one more reason to publish binaries for mswin: ZoneAlarm.
popfile, written in perl, forces the average[1] user to allow all perl 
programs to access the internet -- a gaping hole in your firewall. (I 
consider this a defect in ZoneAlarm's design, but I don't think it is going 
away anytime soon.)


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[1] a sophisticated user could create a private copy of perl.exe and call it 
popfile.exe