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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP banner
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 02:22:52 +0200, Vadim Vygonets
<vadik-exim@???> wrote:
>Exim has a good security record, but if some security hole gets
>discovered in the version of Exim I'm running, I don't want to
>receive breakin attempts from every script kiddie in the world
>immediately.


Script kids tend to try every random exploit on every random host.
They are not going to bother with version numbers.

Greetings
Marc

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