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From: Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: bzip.org
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFWoy7F7B4Lpo3NH175sdfPN1XZsP0FwoAAjp=7fawTwOZN0DA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8mtbudmyqt6=jzqU+tRZTpDo6azaK1LbYshBU3RfkWFag@mail.gmail.com>

Author Julian Seward's Wikipedia page contains nothing out of the
ordinary, works at Mozilla according to the Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:42 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:17 AM, cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/23/2018 4:15 AM, Roland DOT Schwingel AT onevision DOT com wrote:
> >
> > Please keep on the conversation on the list.
> >
> >>
> >>> Sadly our beloved http://www.bzip.org <http://www.bzip.org/>has hit
> >> the bit bucket.  Does
> >>> anyone know where upstream support for bzip2 went?
> >>
> >> It appears that bzip.org is just coming back (as announced on the
> >> valgrind list)
> >>
> >
> > So it is, and from there we find:
> >
> > ```
> > Find the latest version on SourceForge.
> >
> > Author admin
> > Posted on 22 September 2018
> > ```
>
> Something looks fishy to me.
>
> I don't think an old school guy like Sewards would be running a
> WordPress site. They would use plain HTML 3 crafted in Vi or Emacs.
> They would also probably avoid SourceForge due to the malware
> packaging of old.
>
> Finally, WHOIS does not indicate Sewards is the owner. They are still
> showing register.com.
>
> I would not trust any downloads from that site.
>
> Jeff
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-01 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-21 15:33 bzip.org cyg Simple
2018-09-21 16:04 ` bzip.org Marco Atzeri
2018-09-21 17:01 ` bzip.org Jeffrey Walton
2018-09-21 17:28   ` bzip.org cyg Simple
2018-09-21 21:59     ` bzip.org Henry S. Thompson
2018-09-23  4:28       ` bzip.org cyg Simple
2018-09-23  8:56         ` bzip.org Marco Atzeri
     [not found] ` <OF0F781EF9.241BA286-ONC1258311.002D468D-C1258311.002D5A27@onevision.com>
2018-09-24 13:17   ` bzip.org cyg Simple
2018-09-24 21:42     ` bzip.org Jeffrey Walton
2018-10-01 20:51       ` Keith Christian [this message]
2018-10-01 23:23         ` bzip.org cyg Simple
2018-10-02 16:05           ` bzip.org Keith Christian
2018-11-05 19:17 ` bzip.org cyg Simple

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