Re: Fwd: d-day

["Steve Poling" <sdpoling@xxxxxxxx>]

why should anyone anyone object to adding to Linux support for VBS.

my daughter had a wonderful time at Vacation Bible School (VBS) last week.

or maybe you're talking about something else... <wink>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <adam@morrison-ind.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: d-day


> >Assuming that the Userfriendly story line of last week(Pitr builds VBS
> >support for Linux) could happen, wouldn't simply having root's mail
> >forward to a normal user take care of that?(unless procmail could be
> >used to do something nasty...Hmm... now I'm intrigued--security holes in
> >procmail would be nasty--running arbitrary commands as any user by
> >sending mail to them?...)
>
> VBS support in Linux would be great.  You should only read root's mail
with a
> product like pine, or else forward all root's mail to a non-privilaged
user.
> VBS support on the OS doesn't mean the mail client will be magically able
to
> execute VBS scripts,  nor that it would.  People using StarOffice on Win32
were
> uneffected by the recent VBS worms as they depend on M$-Outlook and they
way it
> handles VBS.
>
> Systems and Network Administrator
> Morrison Industries
> 1825 Monroe Ave NW.
> Grand Rapids, MI. 49505
>