In message <20050115232004.GA11263@panix.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>
>Steve Bellovin was polite enough to explain the actual underlying issue
>without any of the gasoline
>
Over 20 years ago, when I first started at Bell Labs, the head of the 
lab I was in welcomed me by saying "I've seen your flames on 
netnews".  This was pre-Google, pre-Alta Vista -- in fact, it was back 
when the net was flat.  There was a lesson there...

Anyway -- I hit "send" too soon.  I do think that the code Bill 
contributed as part of 21983 (or something like it) should be
part of the base system -- it isn't unreasonable to change moduli
now and then, but one needs a good tool to do so.

If people would prefer that it be in pkgsrc, that works for me as well,
though Bill's PR noted that there's no "home maintainer".

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb