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Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?



On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:29:28 -0700, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
wrote:

>On Friday 01 September 2006 19:48, John Kelly wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:33:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>

>> >I follow debian-security and I used to follow Bugtraq fairly closely.
>>
>> What's the ratio of sendmail bugs to linux kernel bugs?
>
>Straw man.  What's the severity of sendmail bugs compared to kernel bugs?

You started by making an unsupported assertion about sendmail bugs.
Obviously, you can't support your assertion with any facts.


>> Even Eric Allman says to treat it as a binary, and use .mc files for
>> configuration.  If you don't listen to the experts, who can you blame
>> but yourself?

>Eric Allman thus admits defeat when it comes to Sendmail passing the Unix 
>litmus test: simplicity and correctness.

The OP asked for information without religious dogma.  And since dogma
is all you have to offer, goodbye.





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