Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:42:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Marc Rassbach <marc@milestonerdl.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "David G. Andersen" <dga@POBOX.COM>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131438520.31439-100000@tandem.milestonerdl.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713122244.00b06410@localhost>
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We went through this once before on this list, and the manner in which it is done now is just fine. If you don't like your clients calling you in a panic, then start CHARGING them for the time you spend with them on the phone. It is amazing how a $130+ bill for talking to your local users (lusers) on the phone to read to them the message they SHOULD have read will to towards driving better luser behavior. Another solution: Start your own list for youur lusers and you can then give them what you think they should see. 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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