PM Mail/2 under a Novel/Pegasus system

[Steve Lamb]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:18:25PM +0100, Simon Bowring wrote:
> (I've heard of people forging email that apparently came from the 
> us president - a quite well known attack exploiting an ftp server, 
> so that the email really did come from the mail server there - 
> there're  a whole raft of security holes in the disparate unix 
> systems out there - many people don't apply patches - until its 
> too late!).

    And then there are people who run things like Debian and do nightly
"apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade".  Installs all new packages from the stable
tree.  The only reason things are changed in the stable tree on a nightly
basis, security fixes.  They are put in ASAP.  Unix is chaning, Simon.

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