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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:22:41 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The 99,999-bug question: Why can you execute from the stack?
Message-ID:  <199807212229.QAA18807@lariat.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199807212210.XAA02709@indigo.ie>
References:  <8496.900909928@time.cdrom.com> <jkh@time.cdrom.com>

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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.

--Brett Glass


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