[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<3bbb1855-9ec9-4199-ae4c-30e71c9cca1a at v41g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,
Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> writes: 

> We've limped on for many years with our VAXen falling behind (here and
> at customer sites; the last customer may tumble soon to an Alpha, two
> abandoned VMS, the rest did architecture upgrades).  The true killer
> was the lack of updates for the TCPIP services product... 

Indeed.  Even if one is happy with current hardware and software for 
one's own application (as many VAX customers are), one has to take the 
outside world into account.  The anti-spam features have improved since 
the last TCPIP available for VAX.