[Mailman-Developers] RE: [Mailman-Announce] ANNOUNCE Mailman 2.0.6

Barry A. Warsaw barry@wooz.org
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:06:04 -0400


>>>>> "NA" == Nadia Alexan <nadialex@total.net> writes:

    NA> Hi Barry, I didn't understand a word you wrote. For computer
    NA> illiterates, like me, your message might have well been
    NA> written in Swahili!! Nadia

Are you offering to contribute a Swahili translation? :)

>>>>> "PS" == Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com> writes:

    PS> "There's a security weakness in Mailman-2.0.5.  Barry just
    PS> released Mailman-2.0.6 to fix it.  You should upgrade.  A
    PS> patch is attached, should you choose to upgrade by patching
    PS> your existing Mailman-2.0.5 source code."

    PS> How's that?  :)

Yeah, what he said!

BTW, Jay Ashworth reminds me that ssh 3.0 was recently bit by the same
bug, and when I searched Google for it, I found a discussion of a
similar problem in Exim dated back January this year.  Weird
synchronicity for sure.

if-only-the-crypt(3)-manpage-had-/documented/-this-ly y'rs,
-Barry