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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: IDA Sendmail kit just went out
Message-ID: <10695@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 17 Nov 88 20:01:21 GMT
References: <1190@papaya.bbn.com> <1193@fig.bbn.com> <445@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <445@arisia.Xerox.COM>, Lovstrand.pa@Xerox.COM wrote:

> Please note that this version was sent out before the time of the
> Arpanet Worm and therefore still has the SMTP debug command enabled.
> The lastest revision of the Kit, 1.2.8, doesn't.

Please do NOT go around disabling "debug" in source distributions!
You do NOT close the wormhole by disabling the SMTP debug command.

The wormhole was only indirectly related to the "debug".  Those who
smugly kill the "debug" word are in for a surprise: those who turn off
all debugging code are making their lives needlessly miserable.
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