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From Eli Zaretskii:

>Yes, but I cannot have a UPS everywhere.  Besides, some of the power
>outages down here last for too long for the UPS to be a solution.

You can still shut down gracefully and prevent damage to the file system.  But
a UPS can't keep a system going under all possible scenarios.

>A machine that can stay up for 3 months can do that for a year as
>well.

Maybe, sometimes, if your luck holds out.  I don't think I ever made 3 months
steady ontime with OS/2.  GCC port to OS/2 is EMX, so an OS/2 user might be
more motivated to run EMX than DJGPP.

>I use Emacs to read my mail, so what is done with attachments is
>under my full control.  There are some types of virus out there whome
>I got to recognize by their MIME headers ;-)

I too sometimes recognize the virus, and even if I don't recognize the virus's
identity, I recognize it as looking suspicious.  Emacs, or elvis too, offers
much better control than you get with the typical MS-Windows mail and news
clients.