From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 28 14:58:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697E737B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AB943E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SLw5qu077126; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:58:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3D6D482E.5070205@401.cx> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:01:18 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: peter.lai@uconn.edu Cc: Mark Murray , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only References: <3D6BD999.10753D8E@liwing.de> <200208272004.g7RK4gl5023435@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020828113310.GP26115@lupe-christoph.de> <20020828190232.GA533@cowbert.2y.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter C. Lai wrote: *snip* > > There is a "charter" but all it says is: > "FREEBSD-SECURITY > Security issues > > FreeBSD computer security issues (DES, Kerberos, known security > holes and fixes, etc). This is a technical mailing list for which > strictly technical content is expected." > English is not my native language, so I could be misstaken, but the way I read it is that this is a list for technical discussions, _not_ questions. I guess "FreeBSD computer security issues", with a little good will, could mean that it is ok to ask questions, but I would have to really want it to mean that before I would come to such a conclusion. If I had never subscribed to -security and someone asked me what I though the list was about just by reading the charter, the last thing I would say would be "a place where you can get help". -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message