Fuck off, Jussi.  Serious problems like the one that fellow's network
administrator pinged him for should not sit unsolved.  It affects the
rest of us.  Those problem stepchild packages are problems in and of
themselves, as is the platform it runs on.  The time to condone sloppy
practices and attitudes is long over, if there ever was such a time.

Even in Ports, there is a selection of packages that would allow him to
set up content management not tied to any specific proprietary formats,
protocols or systems.

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386/cmsmadesimple-1.5.3.tgz-long.html

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386/tikiwiki-2.2.tgz-long.html

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386/drupal-6.12.tgz-long.html

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386/plone-3.0.6p1.tgz-long.html

Even though they run on OpenBSD, they allow clients to connect from any
platform, unlike the bad example.

Even simpler, there's OpenAFS or Samba in Ports, to go with Apache in Base:

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386/openafs-1.4.7p9.tgz-long.html

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386/samba-3.0.34p1.tgz-long.html

Its wrong in allowing a mess on your LAN does, more so because it means
that the rest of us net users should have to cover it.  Because of
dipshits using and defending broken protocols, broken formats and broken
services, any project that is oriented towards proper design, security,
standards, cross platform development and open source has a harder time
of it.  Taking a more proactive stance on security and go after the
problem systems and those that spread them, or give backtalk about
wanting to allow them.

If you are too good for Ports, then there are more packages that will
operate safely and provide reliable service to clients:

http://lenya.apache.org/

http://www.joomla.org/

http://www.opencms.org/

http://zope2.zope.org/

There are plenty more that work well.

/Lars

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