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Slackware: 2009-116-02 Moderate: BitchX EOL Due To Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2009
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BitchX taken off Slackware because of vulnerabilities; transition to endorsed IRC clients to ensure safety.
This is a notice that bitchx, an IRC client based on ircii-EPIC4, has been removed from Slackware -current and will not be part of future Slackware releases

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