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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Summary: Monthly worm drills.
Message-ID: <1279@X.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 03:15:00 GMT
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <117@hudson.Morgan.COM> <1231@vsi1.UUCP>
Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog
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In article <1231@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
> To date, I have receive mail from about 1% of the systems on Usenet.  This
> leaves the other 99% vulnerable.  The funny thing is that if I were to
> openly post the problem and solution, I doubt that even 10% of the sites
> with this problem would fix it.
> 
Which would mean that 10 times as many sites would be fixed; to look at it
from the other side of the coin, a reduction of 10% in the number of
vulnerable sites.

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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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Science does not remove the TERROR of the Gods!