Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:55:47 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, adam@homeport.org, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199707300325.MAA17737@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729220323.772C-100000@acp.qiv.com> from "Jay D. Nelson" at "Jul 29, 97 10:11:19 pm"
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Jay D. Nelson stands accused of saying: > Your choir is singing to my preacher. I've got no problem making UUCP > optional. I would install it, though it would be totally overlooked by > most new comers. Which is probably a good thing. Agree. > I've had a few clients that wanted to do the SMTP thing on demand. > Thankfully, after explaining what is involved, I haven't had to to that > yet. Newer sendmails make it _moderately_ painless. I do quite a lot of work for another ISP that uses it very heavily (I think they have about a thousand dialup push-SMTP customers), but IMHO it's a lot more work to set up, and the running cost for the customer is higher in low load cases. > -- Jay -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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