From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jul 14 11: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B01337B7A0 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA277842; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:00:42 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:01:41 -0400 To: David Pick , Warner Losh From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:53 AM +0100 7/14/00, David Pick wrote: > >A little shorter: > FreeBSD Port Security Advisory > >1) puts the package name first indicating it's *probably* a problem > with the package itself, and in any case only matters if you are > running that package > >2) says it contains *specific* advice for people running the FreeBSD > port (as I hope the content would)! > >3) contains the advisory number at the end, when this is the least > significant data in the header, but useful for indexing archives For what it is worth, I think I like this suggestion the most. My opinion is probably influenced by the fact that I sort my mailboxes by subject name. My hope is that some other OS's might pick up on this subject-format strategy, and thus all the security advisories for a given would sort together (for those of us who sort by subject... :-). If that did happen, then it would become much more obvious to the casual onlooker that was something that was not unique and specific to a single operating system, while at the same time helping freebsd users see which issues MAY be effecting them. I also like having the name at the start of the subject, instead of at the end where it is more likely to be trimmed off. I also want the words 'FreeBSD' and 'Port' to show up early in the subject line. >Alternatively: > FreeBSD Port of : Security Advisory This would be fine with me too. And in case I haven't explicitly mentioned it before, I do think all these security advisories are a very excellent service to FreeBSD users, and help to show freebsd is serious about security issues. All I have been wondering about is if we could come up with a slightly better format for the subject lines. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message