Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:46:24 -0500 From: Network Administrator <admin@scls.lib.wi.us> To: security@freebsd.org, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000713144144.03d34ed0@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713132105.04b65f00@localhost> References: <007201bfecfa$1d807440$a44b8486@jking> <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000713122244.00b06410@localhost>
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At 02:22 PM 7/13/00 , you wrote: >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. suggested workaround: set up a private list service for your clients and forward those messages from BugTraq, security@freebsd, etc. that you think they ought to see, with your own comments appended, e.g. "you don't have to worry about this because the system I set up for you doesn't rely on "subsystem Z". No muss, no fuss, pertinent info delivered and panic assuaged in one fell swoop. In short, if you want your clients' hands held, you should be the one to step up and do it. ;-) ----------------------------------- Greg Barniskis <admin@scls.lib.wi.us> Network Administrator Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System (SCLS) <http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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