Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!mirror!frog!john
From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES:  DID HE DO US A SERVICE OR NOT?
Summary: The worm
Message-ID: <1269@X.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 07:17:00 GMT
References: <1330@stiatl.UUCP> <202@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <6081@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <31053@think.UUCP>
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Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog
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In article <31053@think.UUCP>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> An even better analogy would be to car
> manufacturers producing cars with inferior seat belts; should someone
> crash into a bunch of them so that the manufacturer will recall them
> and fix them?

A very interesting analogy indeed!  What does it usually take to get a
manufacturer to fix an inferior design?  A calm, reasoned statement something
like "Hey, these seat belts have a tensile strength so low that they would
typically snap at 20 MPH?"  Fat chance.  Usually it takes pages and pages of
accident reports of people killed and maimed by the defect, plus enough
publicity that the auto manufacturer cannot just ignore the problem.

RISKS DIGEST just now mentioned that PGN incidentally discovered one Internet
site that still hasn't close the SMTP door.  Weemba was right.  Monthly worm
drills sound like a REAL good idea...
-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu

Science does not remove the TERROR of the Gods!