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Missing security announcements

Peer Janssen
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:04:39 -0800

Hi!

I subscribed to security-announce a long time ago and thought I would receive information about security annoucements, but contrary to what is stated on http://openbsd.org/mail.html:

"security-announce - Security announcements. This low volume list receives OpenBSD security advisories and pointers to security patches as they become available.",

as is easily verifyable here:

http://www.sigmasoft.com/~openbsd/archives/html/openbsd-security-announce/

together with:

http://openbsd.org/errata44.html,

the patches are not announced.

If the stated annoucement process via mailing list is unreliable or untimely, I'd think it's useless, and with it that mailing list.

Regards
Peer