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From: friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Problems with SAM 2.0
Message-ID: <388.28049089@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 20:36:25 GMT
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I have gotten some pretty interesting responses/comments to my original posting
on some problems I have (had) with SAM 2.0.  Many were constructive. I would
also like to thank Paul Cozza for responding to me.  I guess one of the
problems has to do with the fact that while we receive over 1000 newsgroups, we
do not receive virus-l nor rec.virus. We were relying on the postings to the
infomac for our updates and many slipped by us. 

I personally do not feel like periodically making a long distance phone call to
Ca. to read a BB where Symantec lists the updates.  Paul mentioned, virus-l is 
archived at [KRVW@CERT.SEI.CMU.EDU@INTERNET#].  However, I guess if you don't 
keep up with this archive, you will get swamped trying to read a lot of the 
files at once.

I would like to make one suggestion to the people at Symantec as to how they
can make our updating easier, add numbers to the cards you mail out.  A friend
who shared his set was missing a few updates that other people had and passed
on to me. We were not certain if these were from cards which gotten lost in the
mail or if these represented older updates which hopefully were sent out before
he purchased SAM and were incorporated into his version.  With numbered cards
it would be a simple to ascertain if you had missed an update.

BTW, yes I know that with SAM 3.0 you won't need to rely on the cards, that you
can do the updating by downloading the info from the Symantec BBS, however,
once again you need to have a modem and make a long distance phone call. 
Another problem would be, how will you know when a new listing will be there 
that requires you to do a download?  

   -Rich
friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu