Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:11:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: adam@homeport.org, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729220323.772C-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <199707300154.LAA16359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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. 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. -- Jay On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote: ->Jay D. Nelson stands accused of saying: ->> Sorry -- I guess I'm old fart hold outs. I use uucp and many of my clients ->> use uucp. From what I see, UUCP use is growing even though these machines ->> never show up in the maps. I think uucp will grow even more. -> ->The ISP I feed from is making a lot of money selling UUCP email ->services to small and medium-sized businesses, often in conjunction ->with web hosting services. UUCP has a great deal more flexibility ->than using dialup POP or push-SMTP, and it's a winner in the ->"security" argument too. -> ->> Perhaps the best approach, if you really want to take it out of the ->> standard distribution, is to make it an option at install time. Those that ->> don't know what it is won't install it anyway. -> ->This is likely to happen with the next generation of installation ->software. -> ->-- ->]] 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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