May 15, 2003

bug-of-the-month club

n.

[from book-of-the-month club, a time-honored mail-order-marketing technique in the U.S.] A mythical club which users of sendmail8 (the Unix mail daemon) belong to; this was coined on the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.unix at a time when sendmail security holes, which allowed outside crackers access to the system, were being uncovered at an alarming rate, forcing sysadmins to update very often. Also, more completely, fatal security bug-of-the-month club. See also kernel-of-the-week club.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:55 AM

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