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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple will no longer fix Quicktime security bugs (only solution is to uninstall)
Date: 27 Apr 2016 18:58:58 GMT
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On 2016-04-27, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <nfqhk4$qfq$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Happy.Hobo
><Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
>
>> > of course it's important. some printers are supported and other
>> > printers are not.
>> >
>> > whatever printer you had apparently was among the latter group.
>> >
>> >> > I don't own either, but one was a Brother, and
>> >> > the other was a Canon.
>> > well that narrows it down.
>> 
>> Apparently both were supported the second time and not the first.
>
> the list is not static. new printers get added all the time. old ones
> stop being supported.
>
>> The Canon was quite new; I don't know how long my sister had owned the 
>> Brother.
>>
>> With the manufacturer's pile of bloatware, the Brother would print but 
>> not scan.  With Apple's much smaller and much less obvious drivers, it 
>> did both.
>
> so you didn't need to install anything after all.
>
> try to keep your story straight.

I suspect PEBKAC. ; )

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