Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-18 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jan 18, 2001 at 05:35:50PM -0500, b5dave wrote: > Okay, well the Security Announce is working for me gain; just got the > glibc advisory. Thanks for the work Vincent, and sorry if I was overly > critical. I understand the concern, Dave, believe me! Especially in light of this worm (talk

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-18 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jan 17, 2001 at 01:47:49PM -0600, duane voth wrote: > My intention is not to critizise but to offer an idea and > help balance the sense of urgency. I understand. > >> One expects to be the first notified > >> of Mandrake security issues when one is subscribed to > >> Mandrake's security

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-18 Thread b5dave
Okay, well the Security Announce is working for me gain; just got the glibc advisory. Thanks for the work Vincent, and sorry if I was overly critical. Dave. Vincent wrote: > At this point the going is slow to find a fix because that individual > is gone for the week, but rest assured we are try

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-17 Thread duane voth
My intention is not to critizise but to offer an idea and help balance the sense of urgency. Vincent Danen wrote: > On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 04:23:15PM -0500, b5dave wrote: >> One expects to be the first notified >> of Mandrake security issues when one is subscribed to >> Mandrake's security-annou

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Vincent, Vincent Danen wrote: > ago. If this has been going on for a month, then someone should have > said something. However, on the same token, two individuals now have > indicated that they did in fact recieve messages, so it makes it even > more unclear. Unfortunately, the timing is very

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 04:23:15PM -0500, b5dave wrote: > > No, that is not the case at all. It's not useless and it's not > > dangerous. We're just having some difficulty with it. > > Sorry, but I must disagree. One expects to be the first notified > of Mandrake security issues when one is sub

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread b5dave
Vincent, > No, that is not the case at all. It's not useless and it's not > dangerous. We're just having some difficulty with it. Sorry, but I must disagree. One expects to be the first notified of Mandrake security issues when one is subscribed to Mandrake's security-announce. There's an impl

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 06:52:58PM +, bascule wrote: > fwiw i had a whole a load on jan11th plus one today and others previous, does > this mean that may be some i have missed or are only some folk not seeming to > get them? You got a whole bunch? Do you recall what they were for? I poste

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread bascule
fwiw i had a whole a load on jan11th plus one today and others previous, does this mean that may be some i have missed or are only some folk not seeming to get them? bascule On Tuesday 16 January 2001 4:45 pm, you wrote: > On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 11:01:45AM -0500, Matthew Micene wrote: > > Has

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 11:32:02AM -0500, b5dave wrote: > > Has anyone else been seeing traffic on the Security lists? > > I joined both the Mandrake security announce and security discuss lists > just before the new year, and there was some brief traffic. Since then, > however, nothing. Last wee

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 12:10:49PM -0500, b5dave wrote: > if it's any help, the last advisory I got was the "slocate" one of > Dec 18/2000. Yeah, that's what I've been told. I think it's sympa rejecting mail based on "no-no" words like un_subsc_ribe (underscores are there to prevent this messag

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread b5dave
if it's any help, the last advisory I got was the "slocate" one of Dec 18/2000. dave. > We're looking into it. I have my suspicions that something has > changed with sympa and it is rejecting the mails silently so this > didn't actually come to my attention until about two days ago. We > hope

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 11:01:45AM -0500, Matthew Micene wrote: > Has anyone else been seeing traffic on the Security lists? I have seen > several posts on Bugtraq from Mandrake Security about updates but nothing > on the Mandrake lists. Anyone have any ideas? We're looking into it. I have

RE: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-16 Thread b5dave
Matthew, > Has anyone else been seeing traffic on the Security lists? I joined both the Mandrake security announce and security discuss lists just before the new year, and there was some brief traffic. Since then, however, nothing. Last week linuxtoday (http://www.linuxtoday.com/) was full of Ma