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[linux-alert] Administrative note regarding subscriptions.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Thu May 9 11:16:27 1996

Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 08:06:58 -0400
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, linux-alert@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu

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I've noticed a *lot* of people that are subscribed to both the
linux-security and linux-alert lists.  (Current subscription total: 7450
addresses in 79 top-level domains.)

Linux-alert postings are normally CC'd to the linux-security list; if
you're subscribed to linux-security then you don't really need to be
subscribed to linux-alert as well.

linux-alert is for bug and fix announcements, important security-related
announcements, etc., whereas linux-security is for background
discussions and work on security issues.  If you're only interested in
hearing about really important matters you should be subscribed to
linux-alert.  If you're interested in the background information and
discussions, as well as the important announcements, you should be
subscribed to linux-security.

One other note: since the traffic volume on linux-alert is quite low
(typically only a couple/few posts per month), subscribing to
linux-alert-digest effectively causes an alert to reach you roughly a
week later than if you were subscribed to linux-alert.  There's really
no point in having a linux-alert-digest list; I'm once again considered
discontinuing it and moving its subscribers over to the regular
linux-alert list.

- --Up.

- -- 
Jeff Uphoff - systems/network admin.  |  juphoff@nrao.edu
National Radio Astronomy Observatory  |  juphoff@bofh.org.uk
Charlottesville, VA, USA              |  jeff.uphoff@linux.org
    PGP key available at: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~juphoff/

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