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From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 07:51:30 -0400
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On 21 Apr 1997, Phillip F Knaack wrote:

> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
> 
> >In article <DERAADT.97Apr18181055@zeus.pacifier.com>,
> >Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com> wrote:
> 
> >>Yeah, FreeBSD has fixed a few holes.
> 
> >As has OpenBSD. Although I notice your FTP server still has no way
> >of doing anonymous uploads that are secure from abuse by warez-traders.
> 
> >But heck, let's spend our time making snide comments instead of
> >working to fix security problems and share the information so that
> >the fixes can be as widely distributed as possible.
> 
> 	Its difficult to tell if you're kidding or not, considering that
> 'snide comments' is all you ever seem to produce.

You know, it really is unfair that Linux gets all this good press while
the BSD'ers are discounted as a bunch of petty, bickering short-sighted
nincompoops.  Watching the four BSD factions go at each other here, I am
mystified how people got that misconception in the first place.

Fule, fire.  Fire, fuel.  8^)

-- 
Todd Graham Lewis             Linux!                 Core Engineering
MindSpring Enterprises  tlewis@mindspring.com   (800) 719 4664, x2804