From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 13 12:23:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9316637C59C for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26544; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:22:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713132105.04b65f00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:22:42 -0600 To: "Jim King" , "David G. Andersen" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Cc: In-Reply-To: <007201bfecfa$1d807440$a44b8486@jking> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000713122244.00b06410@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:42 PM 7/13/2000, Jim King wrote: >Why are they reading the advisories at all if they don't understand them? They often aren't. Many are just scanning the headers. Unfortunately, the headers leave the uninitiated with the wrong impression. I think that this could be avoided with a slight rephrasing. It would sure save me a bunch of panicky e-mails and phone calls, which seem to happen no matter how often I try to educate people. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message