From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jan 4 1:28:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD3737B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D804743ED1 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:28:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h049SqQB026107 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:28:52 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id h049Sqvh026106 for FreeBSD-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:28:52 GMT Received: from grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h03AnRXb014220 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:49:27 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Message-Id: <200301031049.h03AnRXb014220@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: FreeBSD-security@freebsd.org From: markm@freebsd.org Subject: Administrativia: The topic. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:49:26 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all (and compliments of the new year!) The preponderance of positive feedback that I have got back about the usefulness of this list has been very heartening. Thank you for your co-operation! There has been a small tendancy to slide towards Question-and-Answer. PLEASE do not do this - this is a _discussion_ list, not a help forum. Remember that Q&A is welcome as long as both the question and the answer are provided and these are submitted for possible inclusion into the FAQ. I plan to go through the archives and find FAQ items. I recall some folks being interested in helping here. Please contact me if you are still interested. I'll be doing this when I get back from vacation in a week or so. Certain questionable topics have also come up. Spam discussion is OK as long as it is security-oriented as well (plain old spam is _not_ a security issue, but a spam flood could be a DoS issue). For it to be discussable here, there needs to be an overwhelming _security_ focus that is of strong relevance to FreeBSD. Spamfighting has its own lists where spam tools and spam policy may be discussed. Ad-hominem attacks are specifically unwelcome. This is also true of other anti-social activities such as trolling, baiting, flaming and so forth. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message