Hello again, The change discussed earlier has been made. Email to <[email protected]> now reaches the security team rather than any public list. If you find any references to <[email protected]> as a public list, please let me know. It appears that there were none on the web site or handbook or FAQ, but there could be some I missed. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] 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. > > The [email protected] alias has been the source of occassional > problems. Several times in the past, postings have been made to that > address under the assumption that address was directed to security > response personnnel, and not a public mailing list. Of course, this > was a reasonable assumption. Practically every vendor in the universe > uses security@ for that purpose, largely because RFC 2142 strongly > recommends it for that purpose. > > And sometimes one just makes a typo. It has not been > too uncommon for people to forget the `-officer' part of > `[email protected]'. (Yours truly has been guilty of > this.) > > 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. > > I imagine this will have some significant impact: there must be > many references to [email protected] as a public list out there. > So, I thought I'd air the issue here before sending any request to > postmaster@. > > Cheers, > -- > Jacques Vidrine / [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"