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From: pomeranz@imagen.com (Hal Pomeranz)
Subject: Announcing PLOD v1.7
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A new version of PLOD (v1.7) is now available on ftp.aqm.com (161.33.3.1)
in the /pub/plod directory.  The file plod.shar contains the whole kit,
but the files are also broken out individually (plod, plod.man, and README
are new).  To save bandwidth, I'm not posting the sharfile here, but email
me if you don't have FTP access and I'll mail it to you.

New features in this release are:

	-- A -f command line option to specify an alternate startup
           file (useful if you'd like to keep multiple, separate sets
	   of logs).

	-- Encryption and decryption have been modularized.  Users may
	   define their own routines in the .plodrc file to use alternate
	   (more secure) encryption schemes.  See the manual page for
	   more details.

Various minor bugfixes and code cleanups have been done as well.

For those of you who don't know what PLOD is (shame on you):

   PLOD is a tool designed to help administrators (and others) keep track
   of their daily activities.  Since your management will typically have
   no idea what you are doing to justify such an exorbitant salary (any
   amount of money they may be paying you being classified as
   "exorbitant"), and since most people forget what they do themselves,
   it's good to keep a record.  Trot your logs out around performance
   review time, and show them to your management (after suitable
   sanitization) on a regular basis.

Enjoy, all you PLOD enthusiasts!

-- 
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     Hal Pomeranz       pomeranz@aqm.com       pomeranz@cs.swarthmore.edu
System/Network Manager  "All I can say is that my life is pretty plain.
   QMS Santa Clara       I like watchin' the puddles gather rain." Blind Melon