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From: ferneau@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bad placing of Atari ST binarie
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Date: 6 Mar 88 03:25:00 GMT
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Nf-From: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!ferneau    Mar  5 22:25:00 1988



> < (a reasonable defense of unmoderated postings...)
> maybe it's just my New Yorker paranoia showing...  but has it occurred
> to any of those of you who are pushing for the unmoderated group that
> there will be a real problem with Trojan horses getting posted?

> I believe "ferneau" said something about all posted software being
> reasonably well-tested before posting.  Who do you propose to take over
> this job in an unmoderated group? If we could trust everyone else out
> there, an unmoderated group might work out. 
> But we can't. 

Wrong, what "romero" obviously does not realize is that whenever one calls a 
bulletin board and downloads programs, the same problem may occur--the 
program may be a trojan horse program and trash the hard disk, etc.

The fact that there is a system operator in charge of the bbs does not
stop these occurances.  Many sysops do not have the time to test out 
every feature of every program which is posted to their board.

I find it hard to believe that someone is going to take the time to
archive, uuencode and upload a trojan horse program to the net.
Maybe it is my trust in people, but I don't think it is going to happen.
I think we can trust the fellow netters out there.

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