From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 12:33:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17614 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 12:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17592 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 12:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA17785; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:32:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981003132747.04249510@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 13:31:15 -0600 To: "Jason C. Wells" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Status Report on 2.2.6 Giveaway CD's Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19981003105957.0420ea30@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:09 PM 10/3/98 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: >No one is going to be soured on FreeBSD because of bugs, security, or a >general lack of quality. It is true that all software has bugs and security holes. However, installing stuff with known security holes which can be exploited by unknowedgeable trespassers is a bad idea! For example, there are folks out there just scanning for old versions of QPopper so that they can pounce on systems as soon as they find them. I don't want to expose folks to that. Yes, there may be bugs in the newer stuff as well. But why start someone off in the dangerous position of having well-known, easily exploited holes in their systems from Day One? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message