Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

[Roger Grosswiler]

Am Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:43:56 -0700
schrieb "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
<wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200808 at gmail.com>:

> 
> > I do find this attitude strange.  There are maybe 15 messages per
> > week from announce, and I can skin through and this 'I need that
> > update' or 'those don't affect me', which saves me a good bit of
> > time.
> 
> It sounds like a security-only announce list is needed then.  Checking
> 780 messages a year just to make sure that there aren't any security
> warnings strikes me as a bit much for most users.
> 
> (Sure, I have no problem scanning the list, but non-technical users
> will only be interested in emergency messages with detailed
> instructions of what they need to do.)
> 
> -wolfgang

isn't it the way, freebsd handles this? i think they have something
like freebsd-security or so...

Roger