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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:11:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        adam@homeport.org, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security hole in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729220323.772C-100000@acp.qiv.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707300154.LAA16359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Your choir is singing to my preacher. I've got no problem making UUCP
optional. I would install it, though it would be totally overlooked by
most new comers. Which is probably a good thing. 

I've had a few clients that wanted to do the SMTP thing on demand.
Thankfully, after explaining what is involved, I haven't had to to that
yet.

-- Jay

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

->Jay D. Nelson stands accused of saying:
->> Sorry -- I guess I'm old fart hold outs. I use uucp and many of my clients
->> use uucp. From what I see, UUCP use is growing even though these machines
->> never show up in the maps. I think uucp will grow even more. 
->
->The ISP I feed from is making a lot of money selling UUCP email
->services to small and medium-sized businesses, often in conjunction
->with web hosting services.  UUCP has a great deal more flexibility
->than using dialup POP or push-SMTP, and it's a winner in the
->"security" argument too.
->
->> Perhaps the best approach, if you really want to take it out of the
->> standard distribution, is to make it an option at install time. Those that
->> don't know what it is won't install it anyway.
->
->This is likely to happen with the next generation of installation
->software.
->
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