From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 13 12:56:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A11037B634 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:56:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 67987 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Jul 2000 19:56:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jul 2000 19:56:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:55:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----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: ," 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