from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
bug-of-the-month club
n.
[from "book-of-the-month club", a time-honored mail-order-marketing
technique in the U.S.] A mythical club which users of sendmail(8) (the
Unix mail daemon) belong to; this was coined on the Usenet newsgroup
comp.security.unix at a time when sendmail security holes, which
allowed outside {cracker}s access to the system, were being uncovered
at an alarming rate, forcing sysadmins to update very often. Also,
more completely, fatal security bug-of-the-month club. See also
{kernel-of-the-week club}.