On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Buchan Milne wrote:

+ So, in light of this kind of question, would it be worthwhile to setup a
+ set of guidelines for what kinds of questions experts should be
+ comfortable in NOT answering, and maybe a page on mandrakesecure.net
+ explaining why such questions will not be answered?
+
+ Comments?

Can I quote this letter on MandrakeForum? I love the story, and we may
even get some comments saying "what else should NOT be answered".

But: I do NOT believe in security by obscurity. I NEED to know how to
make root telnet login possible, in order to know how to forbid it, and
this knowledge may make me a beter sysadmin in the end...
However, the best way to answer questions has always been pointing people
to relevant documents - I bet that Mandrakesecure, MandrakeUser and
MandrakeForum documentation covers 90% of the questions which appear on
the "Expert", and we should work in the direstion of cowering more and
more of questions with pre-made answers rather than wasting time on
actually WRITING it over and over again.

cu
        Denis

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