Hi,

in /etc/htdig/htdig.conf one reads:

start_url:              http://www.htdig.org/

If the Debian admin does not change this, each day the htdig.org website
will be crawled.  Multiplied by the number of Debian installation left
in this default state, this could cause a DDoS for the htdig.org
website.

severity 379892 normal
tags 379892 upstream wontfix
stop

This is the upstream default, and it has been like that for a long time.
I doubt that this package is popular enough to cause much disruption
(and it will only go to htdig.org it if the 'run runding' debconf
option is accepted). Also, I suspect that they would have complained by
now, or changed their software's defaults, if it were an issue.

But still - you may yet have a point, since more KDE users might install
htdig now that KHelpCenter searching is fixed in KDE 3.5.4 (coming
soon). So I'll keep this bug open in case things go wrong.

Thanks,
Christopher Martin