Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 12:34, Ivo Wever wrote:
> nate wrote:
> > 
> >Even on Windows, can users of Mozilla & Netscape Mail and other
> >MUAs like Pegasus get email virii?  Is it only Outlook/Express
> >and Exchange that are vulnerable?
> > 
> Even more offtopic: the plural of virus isn't virii. It isn't viri either.
> Virus in Latin doesn't have the same meaning as it has in English: it
> already is a sort of plural  (like rice or sand) and 'virii' simply doesn't
> exist in Latin.

I think that Nate was quoting me there, and I know that virii isn't
a real word (and gnome-spell reminds me in squiggly red lines!).  
It's mock-latin (just like, apparently, some like to write in
mock-german).
 
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