From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 13 12: 6:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from field.videotron.net (field.videotron.net [205.151.222.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFEA37C37E for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmilekic@dsuper.net) Received: from modemcable009.62-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net ([24.201.62.9]) by field.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.12.14.10.29.p8) with ESMTP id <0FXN002Q0GMOIR@field.videotron.net> for security@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:56:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:59:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bosko Milekic Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713122244.00b06410@localhost> X-Sender: bmilekic@jehovah.technokratis.com To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, 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? > > --Brett Because relatively educated people in North-America can read. If they refuse to read it then you should probably not subscribe them to Bugtraq. Is this *really* a topic of discussion for -security ? (If you want to reply, address your reply to -chat only, please). :-) -- Bosko Milekic * Voice/Mobile: 514.865.7738 * Pager: 514.921.0237 bmilekic@technokratis.com * http://www.technokratis.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message