From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 9:39:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157FA37B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19065; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:38:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001003103503.04c68240@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:37:58 -0600 To: Wes Peters From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: politeness Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39D9AC91.8CA24148@softweyr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:53 AM 10/3/2000, Wes Peters wrote: >> Everyone has a right to write to the list and share his thoughts. > >No, the list has a charter. This is a republic, not a democracy. Does that mean that to get something posted to the list, I need to contact my representative, who doesn't respond to me because I'm not a member of his political party? Or has a staffer send me back a boilerplate form letter and then does what his large corporate contributors want? ;-) Aargh. I am very glad that mailing lists are NOT republics. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message