From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 17 10:33:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314B837B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:33:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from web10105.mail.yahoo.com (web10105.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0985C43F3F for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from twigles@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030317183339.47873.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.5.49.41] by web10105.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:33:39 PST Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:33:39 -0800 (PST) From: twig les Subject: Re: freebsd-security-questions (was: Re: openssh 3.5 connection timeout) To: Lupe Christoph Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030317182110.GJ12105@lupe-christoph.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please don't think that the FreeBSD community is obsessed with policy. Most ppl I know that run FreeBSD would never complain about this garbage. It's splitting hairs and IMO a waste of everyone's time. --- Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Monday, 2003-03-17 at 08:45:56 +0100, Tobias Roth wrote: > > > Please do not direct application-specific questions to > freebsd-security. > > Even if the application is related to security, > freebsd-questions (or > > other lists) are the place to get help, not > freebsd-security. > > We had this discussion a while ago. There is no mailing list > that > provides qualified answers to security-related questions. You > are > fighting windmills. These questions will come to this mailing > list, as > long as there is no freebsd-security-questions. > > Sorry, I have no idea what needs to be done to start such a > mailing > list. Can people more versed in the FreeBSD mailing list > procedures > please explain how such a mailing list can be started? > > > Also, please do not reply to offtopic questions. It will > only encourage > > the sender to send more offtopic questions. If you would > like to reply > > anyway, remind the sender that he or she sent an offtopic > message and > > do not cc your reply to the mailing list, send it privately. > > So that people who search the mailing list archives first be > unable to > find the answer and send their question to the list anyway? > > Lupe Christoph > > PS: I have to admit that I'm always confused by the difference > in > policies between debian-security and freebsd-security. The > Debian > crowd welcomes all questions related to security while the > freebsd > crowd seems to be obsessed with policies. > -- > | lupe@lupe-christoph.de | > http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | > | Big Misunderstandings #6398: The Titanic was not supposed to > be | > | unsinkable. The designer had a speech impediment. He said: > "I have | > | thith great unthinkable conthept ..." > | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Know yourself and know your enemy and you will never fear defeat. ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message