Hi, > > I just tried to find out the difference between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] But on > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe > > only the latter is mentioned. As there are also lists mentioned on this > > page, which are not part of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] hierarchy and also > > lists, which can be subscribed by everybody, I think it would be an > > useful addition to mention [EMAIL PROTECTED] there as well, just to > > have everything in one place as overview. Of course it's mentioned on > > the contact and also on the security page, but my first way to get > > infomation about a mailing list, was the link about mailing lists. :-)
> As Joy said, you should read http://www.debian.org/security/faq#contact Sorry, I already did as stated in my last sentence. I think you misunderstood my intention, and probably because I did two things wrong in my first mail: 1) The subject line is not precise. I didn't want to change the policy of [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list in any manner (e.g. make them subscribable for anybody). I just wanted to ask, if you might consider it useful to find information, what [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually is, also on the page, where all other relevant mailing lists are mentioned and described, i.e. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe . 2) I had a typo, I wanted to write: "As there are also lists mentioned on this page[...], which can _not_ be subscribed by everybody, [...]" To 1): I would consider it useful, to find this special piece of information there. I heard about [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I wanted to find out more about it. I think there are two ways to do it: - Following the name "security", which will lead to the correct information at http://www.debian.org/security/faq#contact . - Following the character "mailing list", which will lead to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe, where you don`t find the correct information. In my case this led to another question on debian-security, which pointed me to the correct URL. So all I want to achieve is to avoid that people following the "character way" won't ask the same question on any mailing list again. To 2) As there are already other lists on http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe, which can't be subscribed by everybody, I wonder what would be the downside of mentioning [EMAIL PROTECTED] there, too, if you state clearly (or link to), what is written on http://www.debian.org/security/faq#contact? If you're afraid that all developers will be flooded with irrelevant mails, which should have been addressed to debian-security, I easily can accept this. But if you write the exact same words as in http://www.debian.org/security/faq#contact I can't see, why one should be harmful, whereas the other shouldn't? Are there other points I don't see? O.k., I hope I made my purpose clearer this time. It's of course up to you to weigh up. Ciao Siegbert P.S.: Please keep me cc'ed, I'm not on the list.
