Fedora Legacy advistory list is lacking

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 00:17 -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>:
> 
> > This should _really_ be done by e.g.,
> >   - having a script automatically demultiplex these messages from
> > fedora-devel-list
> 
> Such a script exists.  It just isn't automatted.  Would be fairly easy
> to do in theory.  Just subscribe an account to the list, run it through
> something like procmail to process it and do a CVS checkin of the results,
> and have an automated web site update from the CVS on a regular basis.

It should NOT be automated. Malicious people would be tempted to sent
out fake advisories to get them automatically published to the web.
Heck, they could even embed some php in them to try and compromise the
server.

A manual yes/no is mandatory IMHO.

Marc.

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