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From: waters@dover.sps.mot.com (Strawberry Jammer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Just how old and tired is your software?
Keywords: news age survey sendsys
Message-ID: <1326@dover.sps.mot.com>
Date: 22 May 89 15:56:40 GMT
References: <2831@emerald.indetech.uucp>
Reply-To: waters@dover.UUCP (Strawberry Jammer)
Organization: Home for Burned out Hackers
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In article <2831@emerald.indetech.uucp> david@indetech.UUCP () writes:

>So does anyone have good data one how many sites are running which
>version of the net news software?  Is it time to have Brian Reid run
>yet another survey?  Do I dare to send out a "version" control
>message?  Would the results be meaningful given strangely incompatible
>news software?

And anyone running the older versions should be aware that they are
vulnerable to the "Morris" or "Internet" virus. Just because he only
enabled the SMTP portion of the code doesn't mean that someone else can't
or won't! Out of date news/mail servers (even with the debug option
disabled) are vulnerable! 

Sorry to bring bad news, but better to find out now than when your system
"goes away"!

-- 
           *Mike Waters    AA4MW/7  waters@dover.sps.mot.com *
Larkinson's Law:
	All laws are basically false.