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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:55:49 -0600
From:      Brad Guillory <round@baileylink.net>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports security advisories..
Message-ID:  <20000320155548.E59294@baileylink.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000320154614.A63670@elvis.mu.org>; from dave@mu.org on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:46:14PM -0600
References:  <20000320154614.A63670@elvis.mu.org>

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I would like to see them stay.  If I have a port installed it is nice
to know that SA's regarding that port will come to this list.  The
bandwidth used is far less than the bandwidth used by people who
sign every post that they make. ;-)

BMG


On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:46:14PM -0600, Dave McKay wrote:
> Is it really necessary to post the ports security advisories?
> The exploitable programs are not part of the FreeBSD OS, they
> are third party software.  I think the proper place for these
> is the Bugtraq mailing list on securityfocus.com.  Also to add
> to the arguments, most of the advisories are not FreeBSD
> specific.
> 
> -- 
> Dave McKay
> Network Engineer - Google Inc.
> dave@mu.org - dave@google.com
> I'm feeling lucky...

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