[Info-vax] Posts

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-05-21, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> Why do we go for days without anything being posted in this newsgroup? 

Because, in the words of Q, "it has all been said".

There's absolutely nothing new to talk about. This newsgroup has a lot
of off topic (or loosely related to VMS) discussions, but without those
discussions this newsgroup would be mostly dead. VMS these days is a static
known system, with no new functionality coming along. All the answers
that people need can probably be searched for.

In a couple of months it will be 10 years since the port of VMS to x86-64
VMS started, and at various points during that decade, many people have
clearly been unable to wait any longer and have found alternatives outside
of VMS. The discussions here are only a fraction of what they were even
a few years ago.

Hell, even I am no longer interested in looking for various security issues
to report and discuss when I see something that jogs my interest. I've never
done this type of research outside of VMS, and the DCL research was indeed
a one-off bit of research to try and find a security issue I could hit you
all over the head with to make you aware that VMS has the same issues as
everyone else.

However, for the next couple of years or so, I still did a bit of research
on the odd thing when something occurred to me as I was reading the
documentation. The last piece of research I did was on the DECnet Phase IV
issues I found several years ago and I currently have absolutely no interest
in spending time doing any further research.

I still use VMS, but the excitement I once had in it has utterly died off
for me.

Simon.

PS: I wonder if VSI ever got around to fixing the DECnet Phase IV issues ?
They were _NOT_ immediately exploitable issues, but they were issues
that should have been fixed by now just in case someone else found
a variant that is exploitable.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.