On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:12:09PM -0500, Sergio P.Korlowsky wrote:
> > Ok... read the message, Sergio. Kurt says that our advisories are
> > significantly improved, which implies we are making them. You must
> > not be subscribed to security-announce otherwise you would have seen
> > all of these announcements (with the exception of LIDS). Every other
> > update was announced on security-announce.
> >
> > Before you start ragging on us, you might want to ask the question of
> > where we announce this stuff. As I said before, cooker is not the
> > appropriate place to post these things. That's what
> > security-announce is for.
> >
> > To everyone else you is *not* subscribed to security-announce, if you
> > are concerned about security on Mandrake (and you should be), I
> > strongly suggest everyone go to the website and use the webform to
> > subscribe to security-announce and security-discuss.
> >
>
> Vincent...
>
> I am certainly concern about mandrake's security being my favorite distro
> (and main) OS.
> I used to be a Red Hat user, ever since mandrake showed up version 5.1
> I switched to it, the reasons are abvious... its a better red-hat than redhat.
=) That's definately good to hear.
> I am subscribed to the security-announce list, and also in the expert-list,
> I never received a message in those lists, with the exception of the
> confirmation msg... and a couple other messages.
> (on the other hand, I receive dupes in cooker)
> I might have double subscription entries in cooker?
Hopefully this will all be straightened out *very* soon. However, I
would imagine that perhaps you're not subscribed to security-announce
(Denis, can you maybe check?), because I post to security-announce
and I do get the messages.
As an alternative, you can also subscribe to the mailing list I setup
quite a while ago to discuss Mandrake security when others were also
complaining about nothing coming thru security-announce or
security-discuss. The mailing list is mdk-security and you can
subscribe by email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I cc all messages to security-announce to mdk-security, bugtraq, and
RH's linux-security mailing list. If you want to see the past
announcements, please visit:
www.freezer-burn.org/lists/mdk-security/index.html
> I stopped receiving messages from the experts-list long time ago... reason
> not known, I checked with denis and everything seems to be ok...
> went back to the web page and re-subscribed still nothing in the
> security-announce nor the expert-lists (?)
That is very strange, and I apologize for it (even though I have
nothing to do with it). I believe that Denis and some others are
looking at ways to completely improve the mailing lists so hopefully
these problems will disappear very soon.
> I receive messages from the hardware list, the cooker-i18 list etc
> but no expert, nor security announcements!
Very strange...
> Is not that I want to start ragging on you ... (not the purpose)
> but I would like to hear from you guys (before the sans newsletter)
I agree completely! Which is why we need to get this mailing list
thing sorted out. Do me a favour, Sergio, and subscribe to
mdk-security. Once security-announce starts to work you might get
duplicate postings, but at least until it *does* work you'll get the
announcements.
> I also know the problems did not only hit mandrake's, but several other
> distributions as well, the most severe was conectiva.
Yup... most of the other distros had the same fixes we did.
> Could you please double check with denis why I am not receiving those
> announcements...
I'm cc'ing this to Denis so he can check into this...
> Thanks a lot
You're welcome. And sorry for coming off on the defensive back
there... =)
> BTW I am subscribed with the email address of:
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Got it.
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