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Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm]
From: Garance A Drosihn (drosihrpi.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 16:44:47 CDT

At 1:44 PM -0700 7/13/00, Justin Wolf wrote:
>Maybe I missed it in this really long thread somewhere, but
>why do we have to say that it concerns FreeBSD at all?

Because we are trying to provide a service to FreeBSD users.

If there is NO mention of freebsd, then they will either
ignore it completely, or they will send messages to this
(freebsd) mailing list saying "Does security advisory X
apply to FreeBSD?".

So we want some mention of freebsd, but it would be nice if we
could come up with a subject-format which didn't make it so
easy to assume the advisory is for the core freebsd operating
system. In my case, I am thinking how these subjects look
to people are NOT currently running freebsd, and thus they have
absolutely no reason to read the whole article to "learn" the
distinction between "FreeBSD" and "FreeBSD Ports". Note that
this means my concern isn't exactly the same as Brett's original
message, but it is mighty similar.

(also note that I do think that the recent addition of the
word "Ports" to the subject line may be enough to address
these concerns) 

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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gadeclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosihrpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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