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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:59:46 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Cc:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [fwd] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:56.tcp_wrappers (from: security-advisories@FreeBSD.org)
Message-ID:  <20010824005946.B8330@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010824102533.E20953@ns2.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:25:33AM %2B0300
References:  <20010824102533.E20953@ns2.wananchi.com>

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:25:33AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I received this today.
>=20
> My question is:
>=20
> Why do we get the security notifications so much later than when the
> correction was done?=20
> For those of use who do minitor the -cvs-all/ -stable and do UPDATEs on
> almost a weekly basis, isn't this far much overtaken by events.
> Someone cares to explain this to me? Why this late?

Because a human is the one who writes the advisory.  Sorry, but this
job is a lot of work.

Kris

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