VIRUS-L Digest Wednesday, 4 Jan 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: Government Certification of Software Bursting Digests on UNIX hosts --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 12:49 EST From: WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Subject: Government Certification of Software Stan Horowitz writes: "A question of relevance to this discussion is along the following lines. Is it not the ethical responsibility of our government to establish laws and guidelines which software must pass before being distributed." Bite your tongue! Murray's first law of data security reads: "Be very careful what you ask for; you might get it." No body promised you a rose garden. If you got it, you would likely find it to be a cold and hungry place. Those who believe that it is the responsibility of government to provide us with a zero-risk world would do well to think about the implications. God protect me from computer software provided by those wonderful people who who gave us the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. William Hugh Murray, Fellow, Information System Security, Ernst & Whinney 2000 National City Center Cleveland, Ohio 44114 21 Locust Avenue, Suite 2D, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jan 89 06:43:43 -0800 From: Steve Goldstein Subject: Bursting Digests on UNIX hosts From time to time, the subject of mail digests comes up, as it does often with BIG-LAN Digest. Some folks, such as I, do not like to have to read through the entire digest to get msgs of interest. Fortunately, if you use MH-Mail (RAND's Mail Handling utility on UNIX hosts), you can place the MH command "inc" (incorporate mail from the system mail box into my inbox) in your login script, followed by the command: burst `pick -subj "VIRUS-L Digest"` >& /dev/null This looks for msgs with VIRUS-L Digest in the subject field and bursts them into their constituent msgs. Then, you can scan a message list which identifies each component of the digest individually. For those of you on UNIX machines who do not have MH (public domain), consider kicking and screaming for it! Regards to all, Steve Goldstein ------------------------------ End of VIRUS-L Digest ********************* Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253