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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Formalities</A></H2>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Disclaimer</A>
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<P>---------------If you read nothing else, please read this----------------
<P>This program offers an aid to creating firewall rules. It offers
ABSOLUTELY NO intelligence in deciding what should be allowed or
disallowed. It has ABSOLUTELY NO ability to understand your security
policy and implement it. YOU are responsible for reviewing the rules and
massaging them to fit your needs.
<P>While this documentation attempts to provide some general
guidelines on how to use Mason, please remember: the author has no
knowledge of what you want your firewall to do and has not tailored the
documentation or program to specially fit your needs. If there is ever a
discrepancy between your needs and the program output or your needs and
the documentation, the program and/or documentation are _dead_ _wrong_.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 Copyleft</A>
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<P> Mason interactively creates a Linux packet filtering firewall.
<P>Copyright (C) 1998-2002 William Stearns
<A HREF="mailto:wstearns@pobox.com">wstearns@pobox.com</A><P>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
<P>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
<P>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
<P>The author can also be reached at:
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<DT><B>email</B><DD><P>
<A HREF="mailto:wstearns@pobox.com">wstearns@pobox.com</A> (preferred)
<DT><B>web</B><DD><P>
<A HREF="http://www.stearns.org/mason/">http://www.stearns.org/mason/</A><DT><B>snail</B><DD><P>
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William Stearns
6 Manchester Dr.
Lebanon NH, 03766, USA
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<P>This code is entirely owned by William Stearns
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