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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>
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Subject: Re: [fwd] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:56.tcp_wrappers (from: security-advisories@FreeBSD.org)
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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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