From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 27 14:40:19 2002 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 70B6837B405 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7841B43E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7RLeBMA001658; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:40:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with UUCP id g7RLeAUW001657; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:40:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7RLZXl5024627; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:35:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200208272135.g7RLZXl5024627@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Ju Ichi Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only References: <200208271720.20363.freebsd-security@ichi.net> In-Reply-To: <200208271720.20363.freebsd-security@ichi.net> ; from Ju Ichi "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:20:20 EDT." Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:35:33 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > I've posted a couple of times recently looking for a solution to what > I believe is/was a fairly involved, security-related problem. If by > doing so, I contrubuted to the noise on the list, I am truly sorry. No Problemo. > Being fairly new to FreeBSD, I was not sure where to go. So, I > posted to freebsd-questions first, then to freebsd-net, and finally > to freebsd-security. The latter is the only one that I received any > answers from. I really appreciate the answers too! They helped my > by giving me food for thought and while my problem is not solved, I > was able to dig into places I didn't know about owing to my being > fairly new to FreeBSD and the IPSec implmentation/utilities not being > throughly documented. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about > the lack of documentation. I understand that most everyone is doing > this out of a love of it and with limited time. Cool. This gives some pointers for useful ways to proceed. Are you any good at documenting stuff? > To cut to the chase, there doesn't seem to be a charter or detailed > set of guidlines for this list. Good feedback. I will fix this. > Without quoting the handbook completely, it says that a) this is a > list for "security issues", and b) it is a "technical mailing list for > which strictly technical content is expected." So, even given all the > discussion, I am unsure as to whether I added to the noise problem or > not. A really useful activity is to help compile an FAQ (both the Q and the A). Wanna contribute? :-) M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message