From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 17 10:44:19 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 2337937B404 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7DF43F75 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2HIf1Ju005452; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:41:01 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h2HIf1lI005451; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:41:01 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:41:01 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Lupe Christoph Cc: Tobias Roth , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-security-questions (was: Re: openssh 3.5 connection timeout) Message-ID: <20030317104101.D21173@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <15678.24.218.220.202.1047852089.squirrel@webmail.wvths.com> <20030317074556.GA28299@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030317182110.GJ12105@lupe-christoph.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/unnNtmY43mpUSKx" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030317182110.GJ12105@lupe-christoph.de>; from lupe@lupe-christoph.de on Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:21:10PM +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu 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 --/unnNtmY43mpUSKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: > 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. freebsd-security gained a strict no general questions policy recently because it was discovered that virtually no developers were reading the list due to all the stupid questions. This included most of the developers who do anything related to security. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --/unnNtmY43mpUSKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dha8XY6L6fI4GtQRAqBQAJ40aXEiddxhDjk2GI269igTKzBH8QCgujnu YGgyxVv/SCv07nT/VQtwqgg= =Asky -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/unnNtmY43mpUSKx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message