Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:55:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131554460.67970-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 *sigh* Yeah.. This has been bugging me for a while too. It creates alot of misinformation about FreeBSD and makes us look worse than what the truth is. Ever go to any of the uhm.. "security" sites and do a search on FreeBSD? On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brett Glass wrote: : : I've recently added some of my clients to the Bugtraq mailing list, and : whenever a message goes out with a subject like "FreeBSD Ports Security : Advisory: <Mumble>," they think it's a security hole in FreeBSD. Of course, : WE know it's not, but they don't understand what "FreeBSD Ports" means and : get the wrong idea. Any ideas about how to rephrase the subject lines so : that people who see these messages will get the right idea without knowing : what the Ports Collection is? Perhaps if the name "FreeBSD" didn't come first? : : --Brett : : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message : * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5bh7QdMMtMcA1U5ARAnQSAKDD4IBfxPxJF0VOtoEuN6gUG1WWdQCgrsXx rssiu6SsQmpuoKKMcx7EQQI= =Ceow -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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