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 subscribed to
> Mandrake's security-announce. There's an implied if not explicit
> expectancy that the list should be sufficient for being alerted to
> Mandrake security issues. I'm not saying the list has always been
> useless and dangerous, and I'm not saying the list will always be
> such. But the list has been down for just about a month, and as far as I
> can tell, is still down. So at present, assuming the list is still
> down, it is indeed useless and dangerous simply because people expect
> it to be both functional and current. It is analogous to some virus or
> trojan disabling my system's local security warnings.
While I think your comparison is ridiculous, I do agree that the list
needs to be fixed. However, I became aware of this problem two days
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 bad as our "mailing
list guru" is gone for the week and I don't know anything about sympa
nor have access to fix anything if it is indeed broken.
At this point the going is slow to find a fix because that individual
is gone for the week, but rest assured we are trying to get this fixed
ASAP.
But comparing the list being down to a virus or trojan is probably the
worst analogy I've ever heard.
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