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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:16:42 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        KentH@HNS.St-Louis.Mo.US, julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer), terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION 
Message-ID:  <6112.824030202@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 1996 23:48:48 PST." <23357.823938528@time.cdrom.com> 

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> > I *strongly* disagree with you.  If I change the dev's on my firewall 
> > I expect 'em to damn well stay changed and the first time they don't
> > I first go searching for the person that hacked the firewall, then
> > finding nothing, I dump it and rebuild it from scratch assuming that
> > I've just been badly beaten at my game.  Now you tell me that they won't
> > stay that way?  I dump it and get a new o/s.
> 
> FWIW, this is almost word-for-word what the folks at USENIX told me
> and Julian will almost certainly never convince me that this is a
> problem that can be dismissed lightly.  I will fight long and hard for
> compatibility because I happen to think that I'm 100% right about how
> users will feel about this, and if no one else will speak for them,
> I will.

Funny you should say that, I'm sure the Julian and I are 100% right as
well :-)

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