You know you guys are all assuming a lot. Who even says there will be a new
version of qmail. qmail 1.03 is a very stable product... and stable is good
in the linux world... just wish other venders would be willing to produce a
product that was stable and then not muck with it until something truly
useful is added. I'm sick and tired up updating software because one user
needs that "neat new toe clipping option".
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:15 AM
To: Ian Lance Taylor
Cc: Jason Brooke; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail 2.0 exploit
On 02 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dan could fix this by releasing qmail-1.03.1 with different
> installation instructions. Of course, if he did, some people would
> take that to be an admission that there actually is a security hole in
> qmail-1.03.
Who cares what other people think? If he (Dan) is giving out a
product which is even better and easier to set up than his last
version, then who cares about the reasons? What are we doing?
Making software design a sentimental practice?
I say just stick LWQ into qmail-1.whatever-is-next, and then all
alleged bug reports, whether true or not (which can be debated
until the end of time - ask yourself if it possible for both
sides to agree. It is human nature that they won't) will be old
news.
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'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed
$14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the
line 'You'll make a grown man cry'."
