Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:35:33 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Ju Ichi <freebsd-security@ichi.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only Message-ID: <200208272135.g7RLZXl5024627@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <200208271720.20363.freebsd-security@ichi.net> ; from Ju Ichi <freebsd-security@ichi.net> "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:20:20 EDT." References: <200208271720.20363.freebsd-security@ichi.net>
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> I've posted a couple of times recently looking for a solution to what > I believe is/was a fairly involved, security-related problem. If by > doing so, I contrubuted to the noise on the list, I am truly sorry. No Problemo. > Being fairly new to FreeBSD, I was not sure where to go. So, I > posted to freebsd-questions first, then to freebsd-net, and finally > to freebsd-security. The latter is the only one that I received any > answers from. I really appreciate the answers too! They helped my > by giving me food for thought and while my problem is not solved, I > was able to dig into places I didn't know about owing to my being > fairly new to FreeBSD and the IPSec implmentation/utilities not being > throughly documented. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about > the lack of documentation. I understand that most everyone is doing > this out of a love of it and with limited time. Cool. This gives some pointers for useful ways to proceed. Are you any good at documenting stuff? > To cut to the chase, there doesn't seem to be a charter or detailed > set of guidlines for this list. Good feedback. I will fix this. > Without quoting the handbook completely, it says that a) this is a > list for "security issues", and b) it is a "technical mailing list for > which strictly technical content is expected." So, even given all the > discussion, I am unsure as to whether I added to the noise problem or > not. A really useful activity is to help compile an FAQ (both the Q and the A). Wanna contribute? :-) M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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