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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 16 Dec 1995 13:26:37 -0800
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In article <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net>,
Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:

>In article <4am5uq$r24@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>>FreeBSD also supports kernel packet filtering and accounting.  We've
>>implemented several firewalls with it, including the one here.  Type
>>`man ipfw' on any post-2.0 FreeBSD machine.
>
>Irrelevant. man pages are for gurus, not people who are trying to decide 
>which OS will serve their needs.

You're trying to tell me that someone who can't read a man page is
competent to select an OS, much less build a firewall?

cjs
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