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From: brock@brock.cs.unc.edu (J. Dean Brock)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: subtle bugs
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Date: 14 May 88 00:07:36 GMT
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The way I interpret Stoll's Wily Hacker article (May CACM), at one
time GNU emacs was distributed in such a way that after installation
movemail (in etc) was setuid root.

Is that the correct interpretation?

It's not distributed this way now.  When was the "bug" fixed?