Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:17:27 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] Message-ID: <v0421010bb595060e3be8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000714123827.A64184@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000714120932.A63784@mithrandr.moria.org> <E13D2as-0006Yk-00@xi.css.qmw.ac.uk> <20000714123827.A64184@mithrandr.moria.org>
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At 12:38 PM +0200 7/14/00, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: >On Fri 2000-07-14 (11:21), David Pick wrote: > > > > Depends on how they classify the text; if they use only the > > first word then this statement is true. > >I don't think you understand. The stated problem is that people >are automatically counting advisories based on false assumptions. I am one of the people who is actively "stating the problem". I think you do not understand. I believe that everyone knows that some objection can be imagined for any format which is suggested. We all know that no matter how careful we are, there is someone out in the world who is so dumb that they will misunderstand it. The fact that there is no perfect subject-format does not mean that every subject-format is equally good. Thus, the fact that you can throw stones at one specific suggestion is not helpful. All I wish for is a little brain-storming, just to see if there is any subject-format strategy that we feel will do a little better. I do agree that some things will still get the wrong idea from the subject-format that David suggested, but I do still think that his suggestion is BETTER than some of the other alternatives. Thus, I like his suggestion. If you have an alternative which is even better, than it would be helpful to suggest that alternative. We're just brain-storming for ideas here, and someone (not me!) will pick the most promising one. Just MO. --- 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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