Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:59:48 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <20251120145948.00000987@gmail.com> References: <1864d8e7ae136b94$115$2498948$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10a4ph3$obcm$2@dont-email.me> <68c5ef9f@news.ausics.net> <10a5sou$1360o$7@dont-email.me> <10fcb5j$3enl$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fb9166cd533e514e259b8e9c8f6a057e"; logging-data="3452335"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+a326aNDGuyrHMdAnXE1UtyxZAHwAaIAc=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:TtQCCz8XwCJT3Pq8hBFuj72H7hA= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:701339 comp.os.linux.misc:77763 On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:23:47 -0000 (UTC) Gremlin wrote: > I never thought macro support was a good idea. MS disagreed and many > corporations and end users used the technology. It's a good idea *on paper* (as an expansion of office-productivity features like mail-merge which have been around forever,) but the extent to which MS enabled it to hook into damn near everything not just in Office but the broader Win32 environment created a *plethora* of security issues that should really have been obvious to anybody who gave it fifteen minutes of consideration. (It also tends to lead to people hacking up semi-automated workflows that'd really be better solved by dedicated software or shell scripts, but small-to-medium organizations rarely want to develop in-house solutions, MS didn't get PowerShell out the door 'til 2006, and it's an ungainly beast to this day no matter how technically capable it is... but this is, admittedly, a separate issue from the security holes.) > You can't depend on a files extension to actually be what the file is. Once upon a time you could, in MS-land, but Win95 and Windows Explorer hopelessly muddied the waters on this in trying to make file-type handling semi-transparent :/