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From: jmc@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Jerry Carlin)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A *Big* Thank You
Message-ID: <4578@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 88 16:50:47 GMT
References: <361@itivax.UUCP> <367@execu.UUCP> <1294@tmpmbx.UUCP> <2517@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: jmc@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Jerry Carlin)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <2517@cs.Buffalo.EDU> bowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon E Bowen) writes:
>... I knew that sendmail is
>one of the most insecure mailers around. And I sure hope no one out there
>thought differently even before the worm. He didn't teach me a whole lot. He
>just wasted my time...

Being mostly a V-oid, I did not know sendmail was holey. Anyone who did 
and did not contribute to getting it fixed is at least as guilty
as the perpetrator. 

There is a legal concept of an 'attractive nuisance' typically applied to 
kids getting drowned because there was not a good fence in front of 
the swimming pool. It applies here.

I'm getting really tired of 'we' (the in crowd) knew there was a problem
so we did not feel we had to do anything. The rest of us did not know the
problem existed.

The arguement that 'why should we fix anything because there will be some
holes in the future' is equivalent to 'why should we have medicine because
there will always be disease'. It does not wash.

-- 
Jerry Carlin (415) 823-2441 {bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!jmc
To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe.