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Ciaran McCreesh posted <20051106214747.4e6a9cff@××××××××.home>, excerpted |
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below, on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:47:47 +0000: |
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> On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:38:47 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> | While I agree with the point you make, I don't believe the apache |
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> | upgrade issues were announced on the announce list. The news in the |
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> | tree thing is a good idea, IMO, but it'll take some time to |
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> | implement. "Earth changing" (for some Gentoo users) announcements |
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> | can and should go to announce -- that's what it's there for. |
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> Why should every user have to sign up to be spammed with irrelevant |
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> GLSAs and news items for packages which they do not use? |
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They shouldn't /have/ to, but the option is there. Those who care about |
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security and care about getting a heads-up on "major" changes of this |
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nature, will find several opportunities to be notified of them. The |
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announce list is one. Lurking the dev list is another. Reading GWN is a |
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third, and RSSing or regularly visiting the front page is yet another. |
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However, as I said, I agree with the point made, and believe something |
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like this "push" proposal is a /good/ thing. I'm just not sure how much |
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I'd /personally/ prioritize it, given that there are plenty of information |
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sources for those that care, already. That only means I'd find other |
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things of higher priority, but just the same, I'm glad /someone/ finds |
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doing it worthwhile, and I'll be /very/ glad to add it to my list of |
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information sources, when it eventually becomes available (notification |
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in depth, to modify a phrase). Until then, however, I'm just saying lets |
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make the best of what we have, and when there's an announcement of |
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something big happening, let's ensure it gets to the announce list, among |
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other places (as it apparently did in this case, I just forgot, as it was |
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old news already, since I'd seen it on the dev list, one of the reasons I |
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/read/ the dev list!). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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