Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:18:22 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000714161714.04b5bb00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v0421010bb595060e3be8@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20000714123827.A64184@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000714120932.A63784@mithrandr.moria.org> <E13D2as-0006Yk-00@xi.css.qmw.ac.uk> <20000714123827.A64184@mithrandr.moria.org>
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I agree with Garance 100%. Nothing will be perfect, but several of the schemes suggested here are better. Hopefully, Warner will consider these and choose one. --Brett At 12:17 PM 7/14/2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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