[Bfteam] Re: address@hidden: Important note to add quickly without fail.]

[Nic Ferrier]

"D. E. Evans" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:29:33PM +0200, Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro 
> wrote:
> > (At the whatsnew.html page)
> > And i summarized it for the home page , now they are updated.
> > The selected article was the Slate's one and i've added the unordered
> > links list to the whatsnew.html page.
> 
> I decided that I did not like the way the posting was going for
> this, so I have posted this myself to the front page.  
> 
> When rms, myself or others, suggests a link, please review the
> content of that link, and keep the text to a minimum.  If there
> is a doubt as to what is being posted, please pass it through the
> chief webmaster first, if not through rms.  Our job is not to
> provide content, but to markup content already provided; let rms
> doing the actual 'talking.'  In this case, where the URL was too
> long to stand on its own, and the title of the article was not
> exactly the best, a brief summary taken from the article is best.
> If you don't know how to focus the summary, ask.  But don't
> continue to post every suggestion that goes through www-discuss.
> 
> I have linked the original Independent article for now.  I am not
> comfortable with the Slate article.  Please continue looking for
> possible links that will provide something similar.  When we find
> something suitable, we will pass by rms first.

Earlier on I suggested we link to the original CERT warning:

  http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878

But this doesn't mention free software at all, only be implication.


Nic