From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 14 19:30:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25939 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:30:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25934 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:29:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from fish.hooked.net (garbanzo@fish.hooked.net [206.80.6.48]) by mom.hooked.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA25177; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:29:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 03:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Alex To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just FYI [F00F bug] In-Reply-To: <13781.879561529@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [snip] > Please don't pester myself or Bruce for more details on this unless > you want to see a solution delayed even more - when a fix hits the > tree, you'll know all about it. Thanks to those who have also been > forwarding us details on this but really, please, you can also stop > forwarding the same bugtrax advisory to us over and over again now > (current count: 8 copies) since we HAVE seen it and you aren't doing > us any favors by continuing to post it to the various FreeBSD mailing > lists! :-( At least, there was an article posted to BugTraq as to why the two previous atempts at fixing the bug weren't worth using. > Each such incident also results in more core members unsubscribing > from -hackers and, unless you want to eventually see our mailing lists > populated only by users and none of the developers, please spare a > thought for our overflowing mailboxes before you hit that "send" > button. - alex