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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next prev parent 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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