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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:39:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The 99,999-bug question: Why can you execute from the  stack?
Message-ID:  <199807220039.RAA24040@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199807212229.QAA18807@lariat.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jul 21, 98 04:22:41 pm"

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Brett Glass wrote:
> At 11:10 PM 7/21/98 +0000, Niall Smart wrote:
>  
> >Auditing isn't the answer to programs which have been maldesigned
> >and malimplemented right from the very beginning, rm is.  Sometimes
> >programs reach a point of no return, at which the only sensible
> >thing to do is start again with the benefit of experience.  Sendmail
> >and QMail are good examples of the former and latter.
> 
> Fortunately, now that UUCP mail addressing, BITNET, etc. have been so 
> thoroughly deprecated, there's no real need for a mail router that
> translates addresses -- the primary purpose of Sendmail. Something much
> simpler will do now.

	VMailer from Wietse Venema.

	now in alpah, beta should be available later this year.
	if you read chat, you are using it already.
jmb

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