From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 13 13:22: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCC237B9E9 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([208.187.122.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03496; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:20:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <396E253C.A07A93D7@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:23:24 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: "David G. Andersen" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713120631.04d53b60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000713122244.00b06410@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > Many of them don't read the disclaimers because they're scanning the > subject lines. When they see one with "FreeBSD" in it, some of them > call in a panic. They often don't read the message because they > believe that they won't understand it. > > Yes, I know, it'd be nice if they weren't so clueless about computer > security and FreeBSD, but then, they're experts in their own fields, > which WE don't know much about. Instead of writing them off, why > not make the subject lines clearer? Why not just educate them to RTFMessage? They clearly say "FreeBSD ports", all you need to do is educate them about what that means. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message