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A. Administrivia

  1. Where is the latest FAQ? [Update]
  2. What's this about a Win95NetBugs email list?
  3. What related resources are available? [Update]
  4. Copyright © 1996 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. Noncommercial redistribution encouraged. [Update]
  5. To do's and cries for help.
  6. What's this about a "Hack Microsoft" page? [New]
  7. I have a trade secret (or somesuch) that I'd like to contribute anonymously. How? [New]
  8. Acknowledgements [New]
  9. What have other people, publications, and world governments had to say about the win95netbugs effort? [New]
  10. What's with this PGP signature thingy? [New]

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A.1. Where is the latest FAQ?

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 23:00:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
The most recent version of this FAQ can be found at: Mirror sites in other countries include: Recent but not necessarily up-to-the-minute versions of the FAQ can be found on your local news server in the newsgroup comp.answers and on the RTFM FAQ repository and its mirrors.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no Web/FTP access, you can obtain FAQs through the decwrl ftp mail server. For instructions, send an email message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

help
You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.


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A.2. What's this about a Win95NetBugs email list?

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 14:44:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
win95netbugs@lists.stanford.edu is an unmoderated electronic mail discussion list for the purpose of sharing information and, hopefully, solutions to the networking bugs and "missing features" in Microsoft Windows 4.x.

It is intended as a relatively low-traffic list for network managers who know from whence they speak. I don't want any basic setup questions. We are cooperatively maintaing this FAQ.

If you don't need any more mail littering your inbox, perhaps we could interest you in the archive of all messages posted to win95netbugs on gopher://quixote.stanford.edu. Currently the path is 1m/win95netbugs, but this is likely to change to separate directories for each month Real Soon Now.

Currently, there is no digest option, but this is expected to become available "soon." See above for a suggested workaround.

The list is managed automatically by a majordomo list server. To subscribe to the list, send the command "subscribe win95netbugs" in the body of an electronic mail message to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu. Do not include your real name or email in the body of the message; it will be extracted from the From: header. This is important because if the From: header of subsequent messages don't match, they will be bounced to the list moderator.

For more information, email win95netbugs-request@lists.stanford.edu.

Please read the preceding four paragraphs again before inquiring about or asking to join the list.

Messages sent to the list by non-subscribers will be discarded.

All messages to the list are archived, redistributed on a gopher server, and physically become the property of Stanford University and other recipients, though you retain other rights associated with copyright.

Subscriptions from anonymous remailers are very welcome. The majordomo we're using does not honor the "who" command. Subscriptions from local mailing lists are not welcome, because of the feedback errors this can generate.


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A.3. What related resources are available?

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:00:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
The "official" Microsoft Windows FAQ suite is maintained by tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen). Information on getting the various Windows FAQs is posted to comp.os.ms-windows.announce on a weekly basis. The offical FTP archives for the Windows FAQs are:
ftp://ftp.nimh.nih.gov/pub/win3/FAQ/
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs/
ftp://ftp.metrics.com/faq/
More pertinent, up-to-date, and useful resources are also available on the Net. There's far too many to list. Just see Yahoo's Windows Page. Of special interest might be the official www.windows.microsoft.com.

Unfortunately, at this writing, all of the Win95 networking resources listed in Yahoo, with the exception of this one :-), are SLIP/PPP guides written by nontechnical people. If you have a good guide, please list it in Yahoo and other directories and send me a note.

For technical information on PC TCP/IP networking, notably some free/shareware SLIP/PPP servers and IP gateways, see Bernard Aboba's excellent FAQ for the comp.protocols.tcp-ip newsgroup, which you can get from:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ma/mailcom/IBMTCP/ibmtcp.zip
http://www.zilker.net/users/internaut/update.html
Another useful page from the loyal opposition (David really likes Win95) is Windows95 Annoyances, http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/.

Microsoft publishes selected known problems and workarounds in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, http://www.microsoft.com/kb/. The keywords "kbnetwork," "3rdPartyNet," and "win95" are useful to know. Another useful search is "network not kbnetwork," which returns several interesting files. Shows attention to detail in indexing.

I have recently (December 20th, 1995) become involved with c2.org's "Hack Microsoft" promotion, which publicizes security bugs in Microsoft's products. Please see the hackmsoft page, http://www.c2.org/hackmsoft/. You can read Microsoft's mendacious spin control regarding some of these security bugs (and other problems too well-known to simply deny) at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr/clarifications.htm.

There are some other random, unindexed files in this directory. Especially get the new.txt spool of stuff that should probably be added to the FAQ, but which I haven't had time for. Write up an appropriate FAQ question and answer, and see your name here.

Finally, those with a technical bent should take a look at Kent Daniel Bentkowski's Registry FAQ, so that you can help him fix it up and find a real (non-AOL) home for it. This potentially useful document is, unfortunatey, homeless at this time, but anyone with sufficient interest should have no trouble finding it.


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A.4. Copyright blah blah blah.

Date: Thu, 07 Dec 95 10:15:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
Due to Stanford's silly and probably Unconstitutional policy, this FAQ is Copyright © 1996 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. The contents of this document may not be used for any commercial purpose. Sorry, because parts of this work were done on Stanford's dime, this work is not covered by the GNU Public License. The contents of this document may be used in weekly PC magazines, but only with proper attribution.


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A.5. To Do's and cries for help.

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 14:51:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
Except as noted, I'm happy with version 4.00.965 of the FAQ. Please mail me with corrections and additions.

Oh, one thing I'd like would be searchable hypermail or, even better, nntp reflectors of the win95netbugs email list. More than one, for load-balancing and fault tolerance. Please, please mail me if you can host one. I know how to run one; I'm just not going to, since I've got plenty of other things to do.

I would also greatly appreciate it, and of course credit you, if you'd take a look at the mail spool of stuff that should be added to the FAQ, but hasn't been because I don't have time. Also see the list archive.


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A.6. What's this about a "Hack Microsoft" page?

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 17:05:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
Community ConneXion, a small, privacy-oriented, cypherpunk-owned and operated ISP in Berkeley, promises fame and fortune (well, a free T-Shirt) to people who publicly expose security bugs in Microsoft products. The impetus for this promotion was a high Microsoft official's crowing over some very minor (in comparison to Microsoft's bugs) problems with Netscape that were disclosed in September 1995.

The URL for the site is http://www.c2.org/hackmsoft/. Please take a look, and take steps to avoid these problems; you're kidding yourself if you believe that "the bad guys" didn't know about all of these problems before we did.

As of December 20th, 1995, I share responsibility for maintaining the hackmsoft page.


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A.7. I have a trade secret (or somesuch) that I'd like to contribute anonymously. How?

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 95 10:18:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
If you're serious, send a brief email message describing what you have to an274074@anon.penet.fi. As appropriate, we will provide instructions for secure communications with all due blinding. Please allow 72 hours for a response. Please do not send files to this address. Messages can be encrypted in PGP key CCE7B49D for llurch@networking.stanford.edu, available by finger, key server, or in A.10. below.


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A.8. Hacknowledgements

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 95 01:05:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
Everyone who contributed directly to the FAQ and consented to be named is directly credited. I would also like to single out Eric Hughes, Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin, Raymond Chen, and Bob Dobbs for special recognition.


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A.9. What have other people, publications, and world governments had to say about the win95netbugs effort?

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 95 01:05:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
There's a separate Web page for that. See http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/win95netbugs/rnr.html


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A.10. What's with this PGP signature thingy?

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 95 01:25:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <win95netbugs-owner@lists.stanford.edu>
A separate PGP signature is sent with official text renderings of the FAQ (i.e., news postings, FTP archive postings). My PGP signature authenticates authorship and file integrity. Here's my key:
1024/CCE7B49D 1995/10/18 Richard Charles Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Key fingerprint =  ED CA 67 98 AD 2A 62 2A  01 17 78 A8 33 F2 6D E0

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Version: 2.6.2

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a9cRiMRXx5AzffnQ5Pm72L4=
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You can also get my public key via finger or on any MIT keyserver mirror.

If PGP is just another TLA to you, see http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/ for some handy Windows tools or http://www.netresponse.com/zldf/ for the politics.


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