Re: OpenBSD on BUGTRAQ again.

[Joe Warren-Meeks <joe@hole-in-the.net>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:27:22PM -0500, Benjamin Karas scribed:

Hello,
 
> If it means anything, I agree with the notion that any patches that are
> put onto errata.html should be announced to security-announce or to
> errata-announce. 
> 
> Some people have suggested we poll your webpage.  This easily can waste
> our time, duplicate effort, and increases your bandwidth requirements.  I
> feel it is much more time efficient to send a message to a mailing list
> devoted to announcing critical updates.
> 
> Others suggest reading source-changes.  I do this, but not all source
> changes are security related, such as white-space fixes made to manpages.
> Also, not all security related patches are eye-catching, which can be a
> problem for someone like me who deletes most messages from that list.  It
> just isn't as effective as a announcement list.
> 
> Finally, I'd like to ask when the last message actually went to
> security-announce@openbsd.org.  I've been subscribed to the list since
> October 4th[1] and I didn't seen any announcements when patches
> 30 and 31 came out.  I believe something may be wrong with my
> subscription.
>
> [1] I still have the welcome to security-announce email majordomo sent.
> It is dated Oct 4.

Actually, I too would like to check to see if the list is working. I
subbed on the 10th of October and havent had any postings either. I
should have had ones for patches 31 and 32. I did try mailing
owner-security-announce@openbsd.org (which should be a human being)
twice, but had no reply.

Cheers

 -- joe.