[Thinkpad] ENOUGH - Re: Top posting,.....

[David Ross]

> There is not doubt that PINE, ELM, and Gopher open your computer to
> all sorts of vulnerabilities... but still the invader would have to
> know that one of them was installed... or be very lucky in its
> detections... I would never put any of the three on any institutional
> computer due to the risks... invasion becomes easy once the evil doer
> knows you have one of them installed.

I disagree with much of the foregoing.  The potential PINE vulnerability
was with an optional add-on, metamail, and even that is easily fixed.
We have PINE on our departmental Unix network, and our sysadmin is very
good on security issues.

David