euler euler wrote:
Just a /. style of guessing. Use zonealarm to check the network traffic.
Eeek - I'm not technologically advanced enough to understand the output of a good network sniffer. But my Windows clients go through my Linux firewall, so I'll log some packets and check it out.
I just meant that really to mention such a claim, you really should research and back it up before you make it and a public list such as this that's all - no personal attack meant.
And I can't set my E-mail client, because I don't use one!
You telnet directly to an SMTP server? Wow - you like doing things the hard way. Impressive! :)
Please don't derail from the topic.
True, sorry about that. My bad.
Anyhow, will my idea works?
In my opinion - no. And for the simple reason all the others have already given you. Security, security, security. You mentioned that with Windows, we don't know what they send through the Internet. Think about that for a moment. Most people like Linux because it is known to be more secure, and if we doubt that, we can read the source and check it out. Why would we risk Linux becoming less secure by allowing 'testers' to 'test' which will undeniably be 'beta' code on our perfectly running servers? Not to mention the resources used when a lot of people are already stretching the resources on their servers to the maximum?
Nobody will agree to that. The only possibility I can think of is getting together a set of like-minded people, and building a Linux distribution which allows for this. I think the general Linux user will refuse a request such as yours, but maybe people who think like you would be happy to run a network of this new distribution?
Regards, Ed.
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