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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Joe Greco wrote:

> > Or publicize the denial of service attack in the news groups where
> > IMAP4 is discussed and hope someone uses it.
> 
> TERRRY!  That is perfectly irresponsible :-)

On the contrary, this is perfectly responsible.
 
I would also advocate getting c2 to promote a "Hack FreeBSD" contest to
see how many security holes people can find. 

I'd rather have an OS that endures whatever the random public can throw at
it.

Regards,


Mike Hancock