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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
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