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Subject: Re: X.400 address 'hostile'
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ unpc . queernet . org>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 22:26:08 -0700
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:42:55 -0500. <9409132142.AA00388@sdrc.com>

> What about this is a policy decision?  Do you believe that majordomo
> _should_ allow attackers to circumvent normal security procedures on
> some systems simply with a mailing list password which is sent in
> plaintext over the Internet and is also stored in a file?

Hey, look.  They guy who *wrote* the check never heard og an MTA that
exhibited this problem -- he simply thought it a cool thing to do.

He was wrong.  He says so.

It's that simple.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                          rogerk@QueerNet.ORG
2215-R Market Street #576         San Francisco, CA 94114       +1 415 ALL-ARFF
"There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy."         -- Paul Rudnick


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