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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:54:28 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, david@catwhisker.org, schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020418115015.021cc7d0@nospam.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204181747.g3IHlDiq029335@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114128.02156980@nospam.lariat.org>

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At 11:47 AM 4/18/2002, David Wolfskill wrote:

>So build yourself a "snapshot" that suits you; test it according to the
>needs of *your* environment.  If you are unwilling/unable to do so,
>arrange for someone else to do it for you.

Neither is as effective as sharing information about the quality
of a snapshot among a large pool of administrators and testers.
If this is not done, the snapshot won't be tested under a sufficient
variety of conditions to flush out problems.

> It's possible that someone
>would volunteer to expend his or her time and other resources to do this
>for you for free, out of gratitude for something, or some such thing;

How about a group of volunteers who do it for their mutual benefit? Sort
of like some software projects I've heard of.... Gee, their names seem
to be escaping me at the moment. ;-)

--Brett


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