Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Weep for poor poor bill Message-ID: <1990Dec23.233943.14122@NCoast.ORG> Date: 23 Dec 90 23:39:43 GMT References: <1990Dec21.095529.5578@fiver> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast) Lines: 35 (*This* time I'm trimming the bloody thing....) As quoted from <1990Dec21.095529.5578@fiver> by palowoda@fiver (Bob Palowoda): +--------------- | From article , by ckd@cs.bu.edu (Christopher Davis): | > "Gee, I don't want to bother fixing that DEBUG thing in sendmail; | > nobody's gonna take advantage of it, anyway." | | You do mean "smail" don't you? +--------------- He means sendmail. Remember the Worm? *That* was why it was able to exploit DEBUG on so many systems. +--------------- | I noticed something interesting about two weeks ago. I wanted to | improve my technicial online dictionary. So I thought useing articles | written and posted in comp.arch, comp.research, etc would be a good | source. I must have went through approximately 50 articles all, which should | not have had simple spelling errors in them? +--------------- They shouldn't have, but undoubtedly they did. And undoubtedly at least 50 percent of the articles were also incorrect from a technical standpoint.... I trust the Usenet for accurate information about as much as I would trust a guy in a trench coat selling Rolex watches... Some exceptions, but that short list of gurus from Chip's and my postings had to *earn* my trust. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY