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Re: [Security-Discuss] zlib

From: Vincent Danen (vdanenmandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2005 - 11:13:12 CST


On Feb 12, 2005, at 17:11, Fajar Priyanto wrote:

>> With all due respect, I have never understood why someone who
>> represents
>> an organization would choose to respond in this fashion. A much better
>> response, IMHO, would be:
>>
>> The answer to your question can be found in the archives this list.
>> The URL is <http://mandrake/archive-of-this-list>.
>> The topic was discussed and addressed a few weeks ago.
>>
>> This does two things:
>>
>> 1. informs the questioner that there is an archive of this mailing
>> list.
>> 2. indicates that one might choose to search the archive before
>> asking a
>> question,
>> 3. Actually provides the questioner with information they can use.
>>
>> Yeah, I know you're busy, etc. etc. But simply creating a template
>> response similar to the above would provide better and more
>> long-lasting
>> results.
>>
>> Charlie
>
> So, in short.
> The zlib 1.2.1 in mdk10.1 is safe right? Because it's already been
> patched?

Yes.

And sorry for the short response, but I really hate repeating myself.

(Of course, I could have chosen not to respond at all, Charlie, so I
guess I figured a short-n-sweet response was better than no response at
all (and no, I am not paid to represent this organization on this
mailing list so I did not need to respond)).

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