From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 17 10: 2:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D6437B5CC for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA58825; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:01:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:01:42 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Wes Peters Cc: Brett Glass , "David G. Andersen" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? In-Reply-To: <396E253C.A07A93D7@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. > But: 'FreeBSD ports' in there might just aswell mean ports *OF* FreeBSD. Yes, there is just one other (alpha) at the moment. > -- > "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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message