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Re: [Fwd: BugTraq - how to coverup the security]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Smith)
Wed Jul 16 11:22:03 2003
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:56:29 EDT."
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From: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:17:09 -0400
> I apologise for the snippety email last night,
no problem!
> That is significant! Was this code not
> folded back into Mozilla?
No, unfortunately.
According to Eileen (who was the lead on this),
it didn't easily fit into things:
- it was not clearly a "bug fix"
- it touched many modules (so it wasn't clear who would own it)
- it changed the UI in a way that some folks weren't happy with
--Sean
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Sean W. Smith, Ph.D. sws@cs.dartmouth.edu
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/ (has ssl link to pgp key)
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA
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