> -----Original Message----- > From: Theo de Raadt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:29 PM > To: Ted Unangst > Cc: Thomas Pfaff; misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Missing security announcements > > > Of course, this is how things always work on misc. There's the > > developers do it option and the community does it option. The > > community is full of ideas about the first option, and full of shit > > when it comes to the second. > > That is exactly what happens. > > Now what happens next? > > You guys out there on misc have more ideas that we can ignore? > > Because that is exactly what I will do. I'm just so sick and tired of > the whining, and over the last year or so I have adjusted my attitude > and started getting pleasure out of watching the futility. >
One idea that could be ignored, or not, would be standing down security-announcements and removing references to it from the FAQ. In the nine months I've subscribed I've seen two messages: "Welcome to the security-announce list" and "CONFIRM from security-announce (subscribe)". Its existence raises expectations and elicits complaints. It doesn't do much else that I have seen. Granted, if it went away COMPLETELY, within six months someone would ask for it. Less likely if this thread got put in the FAQ, though. :-) -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard
