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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 10:11:58 -0500
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Theo de Raadt wrote:

> 
> Or that the bug was reported in many public places more than a week
> ago by Thomas Ptacek.  But I can see how absolutely harrowing this
> discovery must be to the FreeBSD developers.
> 
Yep, we only found out about it a few days ago, and now Tom is one
of our committers.  It is probably very good to have a competent
ISP represented on the committers list.  I have personally been
in contact with another, very security consious ISP, and hope
to develop an effective working relationship with him also.

John