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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 12 Dec 1995 06:28:04 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> wrote:
]
] On 8 Dec 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
] 
] > As to "setting up an FTP server", ye gods!  First off, you're not allowed
] > to do such insanely insecure stuff yourself - that has to be done by
] > the MIS department and they never return your phone calls anyway.
] 
] MIS?  They let those morons who couldn't hack CS run networks?  What 
] kinda world do we live in....

Not that I agree with your blankent indictment, but...

Given a choice between having an incompetent person run my
network or cook my food, I'll pick run my network every time.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.