[ Started on the NYSA mailing list (www.nysa.org), but seemed pretty [ relevant to all SAGE locals...
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner writes: > > As Unix sysadmins, we complain often enough about the Windows > monoculture; we shouldn't tolerate a monoculture in our own midst. I want to reinforce an different angle on the point that's raised here. Diversity of MTA software is a highly desirable thing, as long as they're all standards compliant. No programmer is so good s/he never leaves a bug. Even if s/he's being very, very careful and designs it specifically to avoid security vulnerabilities. And if the majority of Internet-connected hosts are running the same software line then the majority of Internet-connected hosts could be swifty disabled by the same bug. We'd have another Robbert Tappan Morris Moment (RTMM?). Steve Bellovin used to talk about this at USENIX conferences, back in the days when I could afford to attend... So while I'll stick with sendmail - warts, humps, excema and all - I'm happy to see there are other people using other software out there. It's important that they proliferate. --Steve. Steve Jones Arlington, Mass. CRASH!! Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Chaos will ensue if the variable i is altered..." - SysV Programmers Guide --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
