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Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories?
From: Jim King (jimjimking.net)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 13:42:21 CDT

Brett Glass wrote:

> Many of them don't read the disclaimers because they're scanning the
> subject lines. When they see one with "FreeBSD" in it, some of them
> call in a panic. They often don't read the message because they
> believe that they won't understand it.
>
> Yes, I know, it'd be nice if they weren't so clueless about computer
> security and FreeBSD, but then, they're experts in their own fields,
> which WE don't know much about. Instead of writing them off, why
> not make the subject lines clearer?

Why are they reading the advisories at all if they don't understand them?

Jim

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