Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:58:56 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Administrativia: Mailing list procedures. Message-ID: <200303181158.h2IBwu4j028502@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:21:10 %2B0100." <20030317182110.GJ12105@lupe-christoph.de>
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Lupe Christoph writes: > We had this discussion a while ago. There is no mailing list that > provides qualified answers to security-related questions. You are > fighting windmills. These questions will come to this mailing list, as > long as there is no freebsd-security-questions. I've been tolerating certain QnA sessions as long as they were short and somewhat security focussed, with no answer already available. > Sorry, I have no idea what needs to be done to start such a mailing > list. Can people more versed in the FreeBSD mailing list procedures > please explain how such a mailing list can be started? Sure. :-) We are looking at more up-to-date mailing list software. Watch this spot. I certainly intend to set up a security-questions list. The need for new software came after I set myself up as list-owner of this list. 600-700 bounces _per_message_ was not funny. I've manually removed the more chronic bouncers, and now it its a more reasonable <100 bounces per posting :-(. > PS: I have to admit that I'm always confused by the difference in > policies between debian-security and freebsd-security. The Debian > crowd welcomes all questions related to security while the freebsd > crowd seems to be obsessed with policies. We are not Debian. I can't speak for them. In our case, security@ was a virtual clone of questions@, and most of the security folks that I know either unsubscribed or scanned the list very infrequently. I do see the need for a questions list, but I _don't_ want yet-another-noise-channel. We have enough of those already. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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