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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 22:48:14 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > But...  This changes *nothing* with mail locking in existing tools
> > and, as you've stated several times, you don't really care about
> > dtmail so its own [dys]function is not apropos!
> 
> You don't consider corrupting mbox as a bad bug?  Either fix dtmail
> correctly, or not at all.  Making it 'run' but corrupt email is worse
> than not running at all.

Read this again - "existing tools" I said, which many have taken up as
a sort of battle cry "You're making our existing system less secure!"

> "Gee, let's use FreeBSD/CDE, so we can lose email by design."

I guess you've never seen a machine which pops its mail over rather
than accepts it directly.

Further discussion with you is clearly pointless.

					Jordan