Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:25:55 -0500 From: "Mark Livingstone" <mlivingstone@ottawa.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SUGGESTION! please comment. Message-ID: <001101c0962d$75dfcd70$0200a8c0@vvk>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C09603.8C9ECEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable it is SOOO hard to keep up with security updates and stuff.. if i = haven't acidentally read mailing list yesterday (and i read it maybe = once in a month - 90% of users aren't subscribed at all) i wouldn't have = known about PROFTPD bugs.=20 perhaps someone could automate the process.. each night those who are = subscribed to, say, updates@freebsd.org would receive a file called = "dailyupdate" that would contain information with new updates and stuff = and will be used by a script to check for all versions of installed = programs. In case an older version is installed and there is a bug in it = - it would mail root notifying him of that. it would REALLY, REALLY help out a lot of people out there. not that i = am lazy to read mailing lists, but it's just impossible to keep up with = a number of them and other information eaten daily.=20 don't flame me if i sound unreasonable ;) ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C09603.8C9ECEA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dkoi8-r"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>it is SOOO hard to keep up with = security updates=20 and stuff.. if i haven't acidentally read mailing list yesterday (and i = read it=20 maybe once in a month - 90% of users aren't subscribed at all) i = wouldn't have=20 known about PROFTPD bugs. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>perhaps someone could automate the = process.. each=20 night those who are subscribed to, say, <A=20 href=3D"mailto:updates@freebsd.org">updates@freebsd.org</A> would = receive a file=20 called "dailyupdate" that would contain information with new updates and = stuff=20 and will be used by a script to check for all versions of installed = programs. In=20 case an older version is installed and there is a bug in it - it would = mail root=20 notifying him of that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>it would REALLY, REALLY help out a lot = of people=20 out there. not that i am lazy to read mailing lists, but it's just = impossible to=20 keep up with a number of them and other information eaten daily. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>don't flame me if i sound unreasonable=20 ;)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C09603.8C9ECEA0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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