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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Security patch
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 19:00:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 19:00:19 1987
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Re: people's concerns about distributing the patch via USENET...

Whether or not DEC has reason to be concerned that their patch went
out I think there is also another side to this issue which might calm
the waters...

Consider that between the ARPAnet and USENET distribution some (just
guessing, but probably in the right range) several hundreds of dollars
was just spent sending that patch out to thousands and thousands of
sites at essentially zero cost to DEC. Add to that all the FedEx tapes
and frantic phone calls and employees' time that was saved and I think
you can see what I am getting at, it's a two way street.

My opinion? Good, that's what networks are for, and DEC has always
been supportive of these networks in one way or another (strangely,
least from the VMS crew, no USENET, no UUCP, no ARPAnet, c'est la vie.)

It was probably one of the better uses of the bandwidth this
week.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University