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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bug-of-the-month club</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bug-for-bug-compatible.html" title="bug-for-bug compatible"/><link rel="next" href="bulletproof.html" title="bulletproof"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bug-of-the-month club</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bug-for-bug-compatible.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bulletproof.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bug-of-the-month-club"/><dt xmlns="" id="bug-of-the-month-club"><b>bug-of-the-month club</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from “<span class="quote">book-of-the-month club</span>”, a time-honored
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mail-order-marketing technique in the U.S.] A mythical club which users of
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sendmail</span>(8)</span> (the Unix mail daemon)
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belong to; this was coined on the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.unix at a
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time when sendmail security holes, which allowed outside
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<a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s access to the system, were being uncovered
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at an alarming rate, forcing sysadmins to update very often. Also, more
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completely, <span class="firstterm">fatal security bug-of-the-month
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club</span>. See also
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<a href="../K/kernel-of-the-week-club.html"><i class="glossterm">kernel-of-the-week club</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bug-for-bug-compatible.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bulletproof.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bug-for-bug compatible </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bulletproof</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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