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Todd, this isn't directed towards you or at the OpenBSD community as a
complaint, but constructive criticism is how things move forward.

<rant>
Isn't OpenBSD supposed to be the most "secure" operating system out
there? With a slogan of "Only one remote hole in the default install, in
more than 8 years!" I would think so. Just about every research study
done shows that systems aren't secure unless administrators keep them
patched. Yes, OpenBSD does a fine job of updating the errata page when
new patches are released, but how are systems admins supposed to alerted
to changes without going to the errata.html page daily or writing a
script to notify them of changes in the page, which I have just done.

The definition of the security-announce list is "This low volume list
receives OpenBSD security advisories and pointers to security patches as
they become available." No it doesn't. I don't think there has been one
posting about 3.6 at all. As of right now the list is more like airline
security, it's there to comfort old people, but in reality it doesn't do
much.

If you submit patches, please also shoot an email to the
security-announce list. It might take an extra 30 seconds, but it
actually _helps_ make OpenBSD more secure.
</rant>

And yes, I apoligize for sending a subsribe request to the list, I
realized it right after I hit the send button.

-Chris Mika

Todd C. Miller wrote:
> In message <4252B0D2.2060304@jinsa.org>
> so spake Chris Mika (cmika):
>
>
>>Is there a reason that messages aren't being sent to this list
>>concerning patches to OpenBSD 3.6? I don't think I've gotten one message
>>concerning any of the 15 errata posted for 3.6? Am I missing something?
>
>
> Apparently the people making the patches are not bothering to
> send mail about them.
>
> - todd