Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote:

> An entity claiming to be David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> : It's more than cute.  It's *BRILLIANT*.  The user doesn't even have to
> : know what computer they have.  Whilst they only support a couple of
> : combinations of architecture and OS in that script, it would be pretty
> : damned trivial to have it support a few Linux distros, Solaris, *BSD
> : and MacOS X.
> 
> It's also sheer idiocy to pipe arbitrary code from an untrusted, unverified
> source directly to the shell.

Of course, it's equally stupid to install software from an untrusted,
unverified source using any other method.

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David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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