Why admin's do not trust daemons to do their own packet filtering (was Re: Resuming the great cleanup)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> My reading of Eric's concerns is that he doesn't want to remove a feature 
> that somebody is (or might be) using.

That is currect.  But we've already removed stuff people might be using
for infosec reasons; I get much less worried if we have that story.
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