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[Scott Smith]

Let me make sure I am reading this correctly: Basically you are stating 
that we should base some arbitrary amount of the quality of a piece of 
software on how well its users keep up-to-date in terms of patches.....?

Scott

Garrett Goebel wrote:

> Just because someone announces a patch doesn't mean it gets instantly 
> applied. How many Microsoft shops have applied all the current and 
> applicable patches to all their machines? Not even Microsoft. What of 
> all the default installs of Sendmail from all those UNIX distributions 
> sitting blissfully ignored and unpatched over the years by neglectful 
> admins? And I wonder... if Sendmail servers are supposedly responsible 
> for >50% of all net email traffic... what proportion of it is spam? 
> And how does it compare to other MTA's?
>
> Somehow "its their own fault" doesn't quite cut the mustard ;)
>