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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Bogus .UUCP addresses under SCO
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Message-ID: <1990Oct1.011018.10124@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 01:10:18 GMT
Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers
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I recently exchanged mail with a user down under about his bogus
.UUCP suffix, instead of the correct .oz.au that he showed in
his .sig files.

He told me that SCO had shipped them only binaries for bnews, with the
.UUCP hardcoded into it.

1) Why would SCO ship brain_damaged binaries such as this?

2) I thought it was 'rn' that had the .UUCP hardcode bug. Does bnews 
also suffer?

3) Is it any wonder so many sites have this flaw (I see them daily) if
this is the case? [danger: rhetorical question]

4) How would this user, *with the least effort* get his own version of
bnews compiled? (i.e. did SCO do weird things to news to make it work
on their box?)

comments/flames/free_beer?
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