Re: [ProgSoc] pine

[John Elliot <jselliot@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

Quoting David Edney <plasma@nospam.progsoc.org>:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:19, Penny Wyatt wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
> > > I understand that you and others have done a lot of work for
> Progsoc. I
> > > really appreciate that. But writing a shell script saying "Pine
> isn't
> > > Free, upgrade to mutt", pausing five seconds and then running pine
> is
> > > ridiculously immature, not to mention an abuse of power, and I'm
> > > surprised you need me to point this out. It sounds silly, but I'm
> > > disappointed in you.
> >
> > Hear, hear. Well said.
> >
> I third that motion.

bah! quit ur whining. i think it's funny anand. wd. :)

it was just an amusing way to bring it to everyones attention. also nick, if 
you want to run a security argument, it is a much more secure method of raising 
concerns since it was private (although i realise it was probably mostly a 
prank / free software rant). we now have a public notification 
(http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/progsoc/current/msg00834.html) of a 
security hole in software run on our network, thx nick. - if you had real 
concerns you would have helped fix the problem _first_ then had ur whinge after.

Regards,
John Elliot

>clickety< >click< - BOFH

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