[10825] in bugtraq
Re: big brother in your cc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Tue Jun 15 12:40:43 1999
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Message-Id: <199906150716.RAA20228@cheops.anu.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:16:52 +1000
Reply-To: Darren Reed <avalon@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU>
From: Darren Reed <avalon@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU>
X-To: casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199906142133.XAA20464@romulus> from "Casper Dik" at Jun 14,
99 11:33:09 pm
I must admit that I'm quite embaressed about bringing this up without
properly checking which versions, etc, had the described behaviour as
it doesn't appear in any of the FCS versions.
In some mail from Casper Dik, sie said:
>
> (I have a strong sense of deja-vu, wasn't this discussed before on
> BUGTRAQ? Ah wait, Usenet Oct '98)
>
> This compiler "feature" only exists in the pre-FCS compilers (i.e.,
> Alpha and Beta products) and other pre-FCS workshop products.
Yes, I should have checked more fully on systems I have at my
disposal.
> It was documented in several locations, perhaps even in the
> "must read and agree to" license, but I think it was pretty prominent.
And like most licenses which people need to get through to install/get
software, I (like most people) tend to just click "yes" rather than `waste'
time reading it.
Still, I'd have rather seen the email come from foo@ rather than
nobody@ (which has the effect of making it disappear via /dev/null
if an error occurs in delivery).
Darren
