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From: john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul)
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rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:

}To get on the CERT mailing list, you're supposed to be root at a site,
}but I see CERT bulletins posted all over the net! What's the point in

   While this may have made some sense in the old days of big centralized
sites, the concept of "root" is just about meaningless in the world of
workstations (esp. universities with hundreds of workstations out it
the hands of students).

john (one of a bucketload of "root@iastate.edu"s) hascall