Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:14:09 -0600 (MDT) From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@POBOX.COM> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <200007131814.MAA22497@faith.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jul 13, 2000 12:12:11 PM
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That's a matter of client education, and it's not going to be fixed by
changing the subject. The subject of the matter is the FreeBSD ports
collection.
The disclaimer in the message is a pretty good place to start educating
your clients.
-Dave
Lo and behold, Brett Glass once said:
>
> I've recently added some of my clients to the Bugtraq mailing list, and
> whenever a message goes out with a subject like "FreeBSD Ports Security
> Advisory: <Mumble>," they think it's a security hole in FreeBSD. Of course,
> WE know it's not, but they don't understand what "FreeBSD Ports" means and
> get the wrong idea. Any ideas about how to rephrase the subject lines so
> that people who see these messages will get the right idea without knowing
> what the Ports Collection is? Perhaps if the name "FreeBSD" didn't come first?
>
> --Brett
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