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Old 02-16-2008, 07:50 AM
Clever Monkey
 
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Default Re: PING: Igor S. , regarding Kerberos v4.

Nomen Nescio wrote:
> George Orwell <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote:
>> I don't use a local MTA , and don't have a particularly
>> reliable email-provider at present , but I did send the
>> following pseudo-anonymous email to bugs@openbsd.org:

> [...]
>> Thank-you and Best Regards , An Odd User."

>
> Igor Sobrado wrote:
>
>> Hi George.

>
>> That is not a bug report at all. Please, read the next reference
>> before submitting a bug report: http://www.openbsd.org/report.html

>
>> The problem description is wrong too. All information required to
>> open a good bug report on this issue is provided in the thread;
>> I certainly do not know why you are not using that information
>> to fill the bug report.

>
> It seemed sufficient to me Igor , all the project should need is a
> "heads up" that some issues are outstanding. Obsolete configuration
> files and references to archaic software should have been removed before
> newer versions were added IMO , it seems unusually sloppy , and it seems
> like an issue that users should not have to submit Problem Reports to have
> resolved.
>
> It would be nice if there were an SSL-enabled website somewhere that
> OpenBSD users could submit problems to , but I know of none.
> I see no reason why users cannot be provided with a secure and pseudo-anonymous
> way to alert the project about possible problems. If I should find some serious
> flaw in software I currently use , I certainly do not wish to be leaving email or
> Web audit-trails all across the Internet giving directions to the location of my
> affected system.
>

So, instead you post them to USENET?
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