I understand where you are coming from but I don't think the occasional note from vendors of pfSense kit that covers issues with high importance (to users as well as vendors) could be classified as spam on the pfSense list.
There are a lot of Netgate users here and Netgate gear has a bit of a focus, OS-wise. In this particular case the issue is not confined to Netgate gear and spelling it out here can't do any harm that I can foresee. You may prod users of other hardware platforms to investigate whether they they have the affected chips in their systems. That can't be a bad thing provided the note is presented in a reasonably generic way but obviously you could mention specific products that you know are affected from your range or perhaps a short note pointing Netgate users to a URL for more info. Cheers Jon On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 19:15 -0500, Jim Thompson wrote: > I tend to be careful about spamming the pfSense list with things that > aren't directly related to pfSense. > > Jim > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Jon Gerdes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It might be worth putting a press release style post here as well > > anyway. > > > > Your mailing list may not be perfect and some people have a nasty > > habit > > of registering things with their own email address instead of a > > group > > address/alias and then moving on. Thir account gets deleted and > > that > > box that does something for the internets stops working and it > > could > > have been fixed by a timely firmware update. > > > > To be fair, there is quite a lot of chat on the forums about this > > and > > any interested pfSenser should be hanging out there as well as > > here. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 18:57 -0500, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > we only sent it to customers of affected units. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 5:43 PM, WebDawg <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > Is there any other list for netgate firmware updates? I just > > > > received a > > > > notification from sales@pfsense about netgate firmware updates > > > > but > > > > it was > > > > not sent to this list? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > pfSense mailing list > > > > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pfSense mailing list > > > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pfSense mailing list > > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
