On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Arguments are very healthy to reinvigorate a public forum, but > are unfair to those (such as myself in this case) who have no > way of knowing that his/her name is being toasted around.
I certainly welcome open and thoughtful debates. However, when things do degenerate, it is best to not flame on a public forum and try to resolve things privately, e.g. E-mail, phone call, or over a beer. Otherwise take it to usenet. :) And for repeat offenders, I have a personal preference of ignoring the [ab]user if it gets intolerable. A short procmail recipe works wonders to ignore a frustrating user. > But, again, the issue is not about technical matters -- > RoadRunnder definitely does its job nad has complied with the > industry standards. My issue is about transparency. I thought it was about privacy? With respect to transparency, dhcp probably should not be changing the hostname by default. I would file that off as a non-critical bug, and see how the distribution makers want to deal with it. But, if non-technical users were educated to invest in a firewall, they would get increased security _and_ transparency. -Vince