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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:54:07 -0500
From:      Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Pentium Bug to be ignored -- say it ain't so
Message-ID:  <346BCB5F.E8C4F50F@kew.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113111843.26396A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov> <199711132030.MAA16638@kithrup.com>

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Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
> I have been trying to get this working in FreeBSD since last night; right
> now, I'm not sure why what is happening is happening.  But I'm giving up --
> I've had it "explained" to me by Jordan that even if I got it working, it
> would not be considered, because this is simply not anything that anyone
> needs to worry about.  

I was under the impression that the FreeBSD core team took support of web
servers and the like very seriously.  For anyone to take the opinion that
such an obvious Denial of Service attack is not something to worry about is
at best unfortunate, and seriously conflicts with my believe about the
seriousness of the support of FreeBSD.

Depressed,
-ahd-
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