Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > >>Hello Folks, >> >>The official email address for this list is >>`[email protected]'. Due to convention, there is an email >>alias for this list: [email protected], just as there is for >>hackers@ & freebsd-hackers@, arch@ & freebsd-arch@, and so on. >> >> >[snip] > > >>Mistaken early disclosure of a vulnerability can have consequences >>from the merely embarrasing to catastrophic. Therefore, I am >>proposing that `[email protected]' be re-routed to the Security >>Officer. >> >> > >And before you get a flood of nay-sayers, here's a "Go for it!" from at >least one semi-lurker :) > >G'luck, >Peter > > Not a nay sayer, but probably worse, here. Build a better bikeshed: how difficult would it be to add an autoresponder that says something like: "Thanks for your email to the security team. We will act upon your information ASAP. In case you were attempting to contact the security <<discussion>><?> mailing list at freebsd.org, please resend your mail to: ..." ?? Don't know that it's a need; thought it might save security-officer@ the trouble of either returning those mails manually or else Fw:'ing them to the real list .... It may not matter; this list is certainly much quieter than it used to be (with the possible exception of this post ;-) and therefore that may happen very little. A visual diff of the most recently posted items to freebsd-security shows little use, but the point is rather obvious.... Kevin Kinsey _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"