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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:00:06PM -0500, Steve Shorter wrote:

> 	I agree mostly with your points, but is it not possible to
> [...]

In theory, but it would be *significantly* more work for the
developers, and so we don't do it that way.  I don't expect that's
going to change in the near future.

Kris

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