From: Jeremy Billones <billones@primenet.com>
Subject: CFV: comp.os.linux.security
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:37:48 GMT

                     FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
               unmoderated group comp.os.linux.security

          [The earlier version had incorrect voting addresses.]

Newsgroups line:
comp.os.linux.security	Security and the GNU/Linux Operating System.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 5 Apr 1999.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.

Proponent: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>
Votetaker: Jeremy Billones <billones@primenet.com>

RATIONALE: comp.os.linux.security

The number of users of the Linux Operating System has grown
significantly over the last few years. A large number of these new
users are connecting their machines to the internet via modems with
little or no thought about the security of their machines. In
addition, the standard installation procedure of most Linux
distributions results in a machine with maximal capabilities but also
with a number of possible security holes. A search of a usenet
archiving site such as dejanews would quickly find a large number of
linux security discussion threads scattered across numerous existing
newsgroups.

The existing newsgroup comp.security.unix is useful but its
discussion content is aimed more at the unix administrator level.
Therefore a newsgroup specifically aimed at the home/small business
Linux user would complement rather than replace discussion on
comp.unix.security.

CHARTER: comp.os.linux.security

This newsgroup is dedicated to the discussion of issues related to
establishing and maintaining the security of machines running the
Linux Operating System on all processor architectures.

Open discussion of techniques and software for protecting machines
against remote attacks (via a network connection) as well as attacks
from untrusted local users are welcome. This discussion can include
information about which applications are vulnerable, the form of the
vulnerability and snippets of source code for demonstrating the
vulnerability.

The posting of commercial information to this group is permitted only
if the information is directly relevant to security and the Linux
Operating System.

Messages which are cross-posted to or from any advocacy newsgroup are
not welcome. As this is a discussion group, the posting binaries is
strongly discouraged. Spamming, ECP and EMP of any sort is absolutely
not tolerated.

END CHARTER.

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