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In message: <200503230304.j2N34R97020359@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>
            jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
:      So, is it FreeBSD policy to ignore security bug reports?  I sent
: the following bug report to security@freebsd.org on Feb. 19th, 2005 and
: it still hasn't been acted on.  This total lack of action on an
: extremely simple (and silly) three year old bug doesn't give one the
: warm fuzzies.  Heck, it took 48 hours to get a response from a security
: officer, and another 24 hours to get something from the guilty
: developer.

You should learn to send it to the right place:
security-officer@freebsd.org.

Warner