On 16-Mar-07, at 9:57 PM, Ray Percival wrote:

On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:43 PM, fonkprop wrote:

Yet again, we see that although Theo is willing to beg, wheedle and threaten his user community into sending him money when he needs it, he holds them in too much contempt to respond to simple, uncontroversial and valid criticism.
No. This is pure bullshit. There was a hole. The patch and the errata had been up for -ages-. Anybody who really cares and really pays attention had patched and been happy for nearly a week. The logic behind the misc posting is so very obvious that to bitch about it is just finding something to complain about. I, of course, don't know the exact numbers but it seems pretty clear that misc has a much larger subscriber base than security-announce. Given that it just makes sense to post this to the list where the most people are going to see it.
Actually, I think you're wrong. Majordomo at lists.openbsd.org reports 11323 subscribers to security-announce and only 3866 for misc. It really surprised me when I saw it, I thought misc would have had at least more than ~4000. Whether they're correct or not though, most people probably think security-announce is the important one to watch.

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