From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 13 11:42:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from marble.fbcc.com (ns2.fbcc.com [216.54.252.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3035837B924 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: (qmail 22372 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2000 18:45:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bluto.jimking.net) (216.54.255.8) by ns2.fbcc.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2000 18:45:28 -0000 Received: from jking (jking.lgc.com [134.132.75.164]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA35960; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:42:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <007201bfecfa$1d807440$a44b8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "David G. Andersen" , "Brett Glass" Cc: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000713122244.00b06410@localhost> Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:42:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > Many of them don't read the disclaimers because they're scanning the > subject lines. When they see one with "FreeBSD" in it, some of them > call in a panic. They often don't read the message because they > believe that they won't understand it. > > Yes, I know, it'd be nice if they weren't so clueless about computer > security and FreeBSD, but then, they're experts in their own fields, > which WE don't know much about. Instead of writing them off, why > not make the subject lines clearer? Why are they reading the advisories at all if they don't understand them? Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message