Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:15:06 +0200 From: lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph) To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Y S <sunny_mcl@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPsec tunnel between XP and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020828121506.GQ26115@lupe-christoph.de> In-Reply-To: <200208272120.g7RLKdl5024447@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <20020827210346.24979.qmail@web12905.mail.yahoo.com> <200208272120.g7RLKdl5024447@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On Tuesday, 2002-08-27 at 22:20:39 +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > > Thanks for your comment. The reasons I post this thread here are > > 1. I think inter-operability between freebsd and other OS is also a > > big issue of security. > General interoperability, while important, is not security-critical. Seconded. But he is asking about interoperability of security software. > > 3. I've seen some similar discussion within this mailing list. (I > > know this is not a good reason though :)) > Bad reason :-). This does not mean you are not welcome. Once the > general system administration questions are worked out, and you have > some specific security issues, please post them here. I thought the discussion about what is off-topic and what to do with that has not been closed. While some people argue that this is a list for security problems, there is definite need for a list that answers questions related to security, software, sysadmin, etc. -questions is not that list. > > I will cc the question to question list too. Thanks again, > > Sunny > Good move. Stoopid(tm) move. He will most probably hnot get an answer. People wake up to it. Just sending people with valid problems off-list will not make this list better or even more important, help those people. Do you really care more about this list being on-topic (however you define that) than systems having better security? The fact that there is no alternative to this list when it comes to security-related questions will *always* attract people to this list. Now, unless you get some joy from bashing people for being off-topic, you will have no joy at all. So let's do something about it. Either accept questions like this. Or create a list like debian-security where the focus is helping people to make there system more secure. Lupe Christoph -- | lupe@lupe-christoph.de | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | Big Misunderstandings #6398: The Titanic was not supposed to be | | unsinkable. The designer had a speech impediment. He said: "I have | | thith great unthinkable conthept ..." | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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