Re: mailx (how is it able to send email?!?)

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 14:46:35 +0000, Robert Hull wrote:

The other reason being the more important one - they just plain can't
work

Well, security designed in up front beats security added on later. :)

I would hate to think we are safer because of the variable location
of ascii configuration files. :(

Security through obscurity has not seemed to have helped Micro$not very much.
.

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