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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 22:48:14 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_2_2 
Message-ID:  <19604.863675294@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 23:16:26 MDT." <199705150516.XAA29987@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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> > But...  This changes *nothing* with mail locking in existing tools
> > and, as you've stated several times, you don't really care about
> > dtmail so its own [dys]function is not apropos!
> 
> You don't consider corrupting mbox as a bad bug?  Either fix dtmail
> correctly, or not at all.  Making it 'run' but corrupt email is worse
> than not running at all.

Read this again - "existing tools" I said, which many have taken up as
a sort of battle cry "You're making our existing system less secure!"

> "Gee, let's use FreeBSD/CDE, so we can lose email by design."

I guess you've never seen a machine which pops its mail over rather
than accepts it directly.

Further discussion with you is clearly pointless.

					Jordan



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