Administrativia: New list charter

From: Mark R V Murray (markm@freebsd.org)
Date: 08/31/02 

To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
From: Mark R V Murray <markm@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:04:59 +0100

FREEBSD-SECURITY Security issues

This is a technical discussion list covering FreeBSD security issues.
The intention is for the list to contain a high-signal, low-noise
discussion of issues affecting the security of FreeBSD.

Welcome topics include Cryptography (as it relates to FreeBSD), OS bugs
that affect security, and security design issues. Denial-of-service
(DoS) issues are less important than problems that allow an attacker to
achieve elevated privelige, but are still on-topic.

General system administrator questions of a FAQ nature are off-topic
for this list, but the creation and maintenance of a FAQ is on-topic.
Thus, the submission of questions (with answers) for inclusion into
the FAQ is welcome. Such question/answer sets should be clearly
marked as (at least "FAQ submission" or the like) such in the subject.

The FAQ will be posted to the list regularly (There is not one at
the moment - this will be rectified).

Flamewars, personal attacks, low-signal postings (such as gratuitous
"Me Too!" messages) and other off-topic subissions are unwelcome.
Heated discussions and discussions of questionable relevance are
invited to be conducted off-line until an on-topic conclusion is
reached.

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the address they subscribed under).

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