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From: vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386
Summary: I'm impressed
Message-ID: <115@calcite.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 91 17:42:21 GMT
References: <113@calcite.UUCP> <446@bria> <KR3NBQQ@dobag.in-berlin.de> <15342@uudell.dell.com>
Organization: Rhyolite Software, Mountain View, CA
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In article <15342@uudell.dell.com>, mjhammel@Kepler.dell.com (Michael J. Hammel) writes:
>   ...[many reasonable words deleted]....
> Michael J. Hammel        | mjhammel@{Kepler|socrates}.dell.com
> Dell Computer Corp.      | {73377.3467|76424.3024}@compuserve.com

I'm overwhelmed.  Mr. Hammel's note seems honest and accurate.  My long
experience with "QA departments" in more than 1 or 2 companies is that he
is one of the fabled good test people.  The other 95% and their management
make a good case for eugenics.  Those are the ones who claim to think a
test plan would find all bugs, who never find one real bug on their own,
and who file zillions of "control-D logs out the shell" reports and require
senior management intervention before they'll close them.

It's too bad Mr. Hammel is in TX; I can't point my daytime employer's
recruiters at him.  Maybe I should look into Dell's SV for my PC.

Vernon Schryver,   vjs@calcite.uucp