Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:22:19 -0700 From: Duncan Patton a Campbell <campbell@neotext.ca> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: lupe@lupe-christoph.de, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrativia: Mailing list procedures. Message-ID: <20030318062219.4da69ba8.campbell@neotext.ca> In-Reply-To: <200303181158.h2IBwu4j028502@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <20030317182110.GJ12105@lupe-christoph.de> <200303181158.h2IBwu4j028502@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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--9CgOsF.l=.pbOq9c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:58:56 +0000 Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> wrote: > 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. > Only _some_ folks around here, like our self-appointed net-nanny, have these kind of fetishistic obsessions. Recently one of our more idiot-minded policies, regarding subscriber-only posts, was abandoned. However there is some other stink in the ointment: every time I post something the nannies object to, my email feed from this list ceases for a while. Strange but true. Dhu > 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 --9CgOsF.l=.pbOq9c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dx2LXgQtJ7uBra8RAr/QAJ9wz/DSkXOtGixvezzb/ybHhnkyegCgwexK D9knUCty+BJl08zIk07XHlU= =fDUP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9CgOsF.l=.pbOq9c-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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