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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:58:55 +0100
From:      lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph)
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Tobias Roth <roth@asterix.unibe.ch>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd-security-questions (was: Re: openssh 3.5 connection timeout)
Message-ID:  <20030317205855.GA308@lupe-christoph.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030317104101.D21173@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <15678.24.218.220.202.1047852089.squirrel@webmail.wvths.com> <20030317074556.GA28299@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030317182110.GJ12105@lupe-christoph.de> <20030317104101.D21173@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Monday, 2003-03-17 at 10:41:01 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> > PS: I have to admit that I'm always confused by the difference in
> >     policies between debian-security and freebsd-security. The Debian
> >     crowd welcomes all questions related to security while the freebsd
> >     crowd seems to be obsessed with policies.

> freebsd-security gained a strict no general questions policy recently
> because it was discovered that virtually no developers were reading
> the list due to all the stupid questions.  This included most of the
> developers who do anything related to security.

Maybe this means that freebsd-security is already a "questions" list.
Maybe this means that a security-devel list is in order. Or maybe
developers don't need a security list because security is always
foremost in their minds ;-)

My experience is that a mailing list that has been lost to a group of
people has a real challenge regaining those people. It seems to be
easier to start a new mailing list. Full-disclosure had a really good
start until it fell prey to Stoopid Eediots (tm) who used it for their
ego wars.

Freebsd-security-devel? Moderated?

Lupe Christoph
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