Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Internet Virus: SunOS patches Message-ID: <663@hscfvax.harvard.edu> Date: 12 Nov 88 01:36:57 GMT References: <76493@sun.uucp> <580@micropen> <426@auspex.UUCP> Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University Lines: 11 In article <426@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: > > You can argue, probably justifiably, that they [Sun] should either have turned > DEBUG off when building it, or at least made debug mode not have the > side-effect of allowing addresses other than user names in RCPT lines, > but you can also argue that Berkeley should have done that as well.... I have not seen Berkeley advertising the suitability of their work for end- user or commercial applications. Sun's does daily. greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny