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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:38:38 +0000
From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>,
	Grant Moritz <volunteer@avcon.org.au>
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On 20/3/06 10:13, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/20/06, Grant Moritz <volunteer@avcon.org.au> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hey,
>>    In the FreeBSD manual
>>    ([1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-
>>    inetd.html) under the section "25.2.5 Security" at the end of the
>>    first paragraph there is an error in grammar.
>>    "Some daemons, such as fingerd, may not be desired at all because they
>>    information that may be useful to an attacker."
>>    Doesn't make sense to me just thought I would pass along the
>>    observation you guys.

> I think that an average english reader would not notice
> that, inserting the word "provide" subconciously.

That's what I did when I wrote it, when I proofread it, and again when I
read it above.  Sorry, I must be mentally blind to it!

Ceri
-- 
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