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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Need help with mail security bug
Message-ID: <3691@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 16:12:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 16:12:43 1984
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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You are confusing V7 mail with Berkeley's brain-damaged and buggy
modification of it.  With the exception of some aspects of the problem
of signature authentication, V7 mail has *none* of the problems you
describe.  In particular, it's perfectly happy to run with a spool
directory that is not writeable to everyone.

It would be nice if Berkeley dropped its habit of referring to x.yBSD
(in particular, when x is 2) as "Unix Version 7".  This borders on
criminal fraud nowadays, since Berkeley's latest products don't even
look much like Unix any more, much less V7.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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