Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:01:41 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] Message-ID: <v0421010ab59502eb7f19@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <E13D29h-0006WZ-00@xi.css.qmw.ac.uk> References: <E13D29h-0006WZ-00@xi.css.qmw.ac.uk>
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At 10:53 AM +0100 7/14/00, David Pick wrote: > >A little shorter: > <port> FreeBSD Port Security Advisory <advisory number> > >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 <port> 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 <port> 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 <port> 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 <port>: Security Advisory <advisory number> 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
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