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[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting "Pettit, Paul" <ismanager at ccbnpts.com>:

> > Since not a soul has said a word about the doc above in 2 weeks, and
> > because no one else has posted any other docs, comments,
> > suggestions, or
> > wiki pages, I've gone ahead and modified the yum docs to refer to the
> > above autoupdates.php page.
> >
> 
> Sorry, I had no comments to make. The document looked fine to me. Though I

Good to hear.

> disagree with the "don't use auto-update" as a general policy at least the
> document gave examples of when you should consider not using the auto-update
> function (almost never in a production environment from your guide).

Yes, this is standard best practices.  See the links to Microsoft's
Best Practices and the other site link I gave in an e-mail two weeks
ago about this.  They all agree: Best Practices dictate you don't use
auto-updates from vendors on your production machines.

> Hope you weren't waiting on just me to comment but it seems you were, my
> bad.

No, I was hoping multiple people would comment.  I was not just waiting for
you as far as comments go.

I was waiting to see if you wrote up something like you said you would in
an email.  Never heard back on that either.  But certainly in any case it
was not just you I was waiting for.  I was hoping to get feedback from
at least several people.

> I had been waiting for the wiki to become available again, guess it's not
> going to happen. Too bad as I really want to help but find that there is no
> way to do that currently.

Yes.  The wiki is sometimes available, sometimes not.  Amazingly it was
up enough for the spammers to get in again and deface it with links (I fixed
that yesterday).  But I know it is frustrating; more than once I've had it
go south on me while I was using it.

Since it isn't stable, I'm hoping Jesse will get it migrated to a new
(more stable, secure) location asap.  But not sure what if any progress
is going on with that.
 
> As for posting comments, corrections, documentation edits here ... well ...
> we've seen how well that has worked in the past.

Very well actually.  At least 75% of the docs on the web site came from
people posting them to the mailing list.
 
> Yeah, that's sarcasm too ...

Yes, but I feel you have a negative view of the list for no valid reason.
It does work, if you let it. 

[Rest of what I would say here deleted to avoid another flame war]

> Paul Pettit
> CTO and IS Manager
> Consistent Computer Bargains Inc.

-- 
Eric Rostetter