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From: Jeremy Billones <billones@primenet.com>
Subject: RESULT: comp.os.linux.security passes 334:13
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:20:14 GMT
RESULT
unmoderated group comp.os.linux.security passes 334:13
There were 333 YES votes and 13 NO votes, for a total of 346 valid votes.
There were 2 abstains and 2 invalid ballots.
For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO)
votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. If no
serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of
news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter.
Newsgroups line:
comp.os.linux.security Security and the GNU/Linux Operating System.
This vote was 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.
comp.os.linux.security Final Vote Ack
Voted Yes
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100120.1406#compuserve.com W.Saegesser
a.monsalve.salazar#ieee.org Anibal Monsalve Salazar
aahz#netcom.com Aahz
acc#alvega.dei.isep.ipp.pt Antonio Costa
adamb#lull.org Adam Bailey
ahall#world.std.com Andrew Hall
ajr#softsound.com Tony Robinson
ajtr2#cam.ac.uk Alex Ray
alan.wylie#zen.co.uk Alan J. Wylie
alex#cocoa.demon.co.uk Alex Butcher
alex#progressive-systems.com Alexander Hutton
AlexS#DiamondMM.com Alexander Stohr
alklein#adelphia.net Adam Klein
almeida#uberlandia.org Henrique Almeida
amcl#acm.org Alan McLean
amsantos#fc.up.pt Antonio Murias dos Santos
andre.faure#bigfoot.com moi
andreas.trottmann#werft22.com Andreas U. Trottmann
Andy.Pevy#nmp.nokia.com Andy Pevy
andyford#nothnbut.net Andy Ford
aprice#healthspace.ca Andrew Price
aramazanoglu#demirbank.com.tr Abdullah Ramazanoglu
ariel#peresys.co.za Ariel Levien
arnves#stud.ntnu.no Arnstein Vestad
arp#cyberscience.com Andrew Porrer
asparks#nss.harris.com Alan Sparks
atan#mail.usyd.edu.au Alex Tan
aturner#pobox.com Aaron Turner
avbidder#datacomm.ch Adrian von Bidder
awilhelm#hvsaa03.nl.lucent.com A.G.J. Wilhelmus
b-cape98#bat710.univ-lyon1.fr Benoit CAPELLE
barr#cis.ohio-state.edu Dave Barr
baxter#trance.ednet.co.uk Baxter Tocher
begonia#enoch.buseco.monash.edu.au Liz Drake
bentwood#hem.passagen.se George Farrants
bhgordo--#netins.net Brandon Gordon
bill#xencat.demon.co.uk William Boughton
bjv#herbison.com B.J. Herbison
bneely#cdrom.com Brett Neely
Bob-Gibbons#ti.com Bob Gibbons
bob#cave.org Robert Wilkins
bob#earthrise.demon.co.uk Bob Tinsley
bokr#accessone.com Bengt Richter
boud#rempt.xs4all.nl Boudewijn Rempt
bouvin#daimi.au.dk Niels Olof Bouvin
bpark#renc.igs.net Brian Park
bray#iupui.edu Bruce D. Ray
brendel#ecn.nl M. Brendel
brian#bishopee.com Brian L. Bishop
brianr#osiris.978.org Brian Ristuccia
brihall#bigfoot.com Brian Hall
brown9#niehs.nih.gov Lance A. Brown
bruno#asterix.litec.csic.es Bruno A. Crespo
bruno#cerberus.csd.uwm.edu Bruno Wolff III
bubbamike_01#yahoo.com
budr#sirinet.net Bud Rogers
bxb121#psu.edu Brett Borger
caradoc#neta.com John Groseclose
carpente#execpc.com Vinny Carpenter
casmith#clark.net Christopher A. Smith
channui#austin.ibm.com Christopher Chan-Nui
chris#stallion.oz.au Christopher Biggs
christof#mediaconsult.com Christof Damian
cjw44#cam.ac.uk Colin Watson
cknapp#lennon.rift.org Samuel Knapp
cloos#jhcloos.com James H. Cloos Jr.
cloyce#austin.ibm.com Cloyce D. Spradling
colin#aeon.com.my Colin Charles
craig#scot.demon.co.uk Craig Cockburn
crfriend#ma.ultranet.com Carl R. Friend
crispin#cse.ogi.edu Crispin Cowan
cruzm#ors.od.nih.gov Miguel Cruz
cschoppe#nal.usda.gov Charles W. Schoppet
Daniel.Eriksson#abc.se Daniel Eriksson
dany.steyaert#ping.be Dany Steyaert
dave.bennett#inlandtruck.com Dave Bennett
davearonson#geocities.com Dave Aronson
davew#eagle.ycp.edu Dave Wagenknecht
david#pgfn.bc.ca David Lott
davidsen#tmr.com Bill Davidsen
DChristensen#chc.gov.mb.ca David Christensen
deedsd#nationwide.com Dallas M. Deeds</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
delta#dy.co.nz Glenn McAllister
devin#premier1.net Devin L. Ganger
dhunley#opentext.com Douglas J. Hunley
dowling#Adobe.COM Terence S. Dowling
dvandeun#vub.ac.be Dirk van Deun
dwmalone#maths.tcd.ie David Malone
eedanhi#eede.ericsson.se Andre Hinrichs
efm#tummy.com Evelyn Mitchell
efremova#flash.net Tony Linden
Ekkehard.Uthke#gmx.de Ekkehard Uthke
ellyra#utu.fi Ella Lynoure Rajamaki
engel#cocteau.Ebay.Sun.COM Ken Engel
epw#stanford.edu Eric Wilkinson
eriko#austin.ibm.com Erik O'Shaughnessy
ernie#well.com Ernie Limperis
eromero#alumnos.utfsm.cl Eduardo Romero U.
eshea3#home.com Edward F. SHea III
evandro#geocities.com Evandro Menezes
faigin#guinan.aero.org Daniel P. Faigin
ferret#enteract.com Karl Meyer
fietser#cas.et.tudelft.nl Jan Nieuwstad
fogazzid#usa.net Daniele Fogazzi
frankc#cs.vu.nl Frank Cornelissen
fred#shogun.anexis.com Frederic Woodbridge
fubob#MIT.EDU Kevin E. Fu <fubob@mit.edu>
G.EDWARDS#ioof.com.au George Edwards
gallatin#cryogen.com Ingo Buescher
ganymede#insync.net Greg R. Broderick
gbacon#itsc.uah.edu Greg Bacon
gboes#ashfordtech.com Greg Boes
gclim#nortelnetworks.com Gabriel Climescu
ggw#wolves.durham.nc.us Gregory G. Woodbury
ghane#arjun.eurolink.stpn.soft.net Sanjeev Gupta
Graeme.Cross#sci.monash.edu.au Graeme Cross
graham#barnowl.demon.co.uk Graham Murray
greg#sce.carleton.ca Greg Franks
ground#iname.com Jess Mikeal
gta#tce.pe.gov.br Gustavo d'Anunciacao
guru#fundgroup.com Mathew White
Hans.A.Rosbach#dnv.com Hans A. Rosbach
harj#hedoy061078.hedengren.fi Kimmo Veijalainen
herman#esi.ac.at Hermann Schichl
hermit#cats.UCSC.EDU William R. Ward
hfung#CSUPomona.Edu Hank Fung
hholzgra#media-engineering.de Hartmut Holzgraefe
hirsch#mathcs.emory.edu Michael D. Hirsch
hixson#frozenwave.com Matthew Hixson
hougen#cs.umn.edu Dean Hougen
hsauer#marnie.teuto.de Henning Sauer
Hubert.Canon#irisa.fr Hubert Canon
huhu#ping.be Hugo Hus
husson#itd.nrl.navy.mil Timothy Husson
hvdkooij#vanderkooij.org Hugo van der Kooij
iclark#infi.net Ivan Clark
icottrel#nrn1.NRCan.gc.ca Ian Cottrell
iglio#fub.it Pietro Iglio
ikabaivanov#cup.org Ivan Kabaivanov
infinito#intercity.it Manuele Rampazzo
irina#rempt.xs4all.nl Irina Rempt
ishark#lsh01.univ-lille1.fr Alberto BARSELLA
j-katz#uchicago.edu Jonathan Katz
jacrawf#mail.oz.net Jeramey A. Crawford
Jason.Haar#trimble.co.nz Jason Haar
jb#jbarchuk.com jim barchuk
jbunch#primenet.com James R. Bumch
jdassen#wi.leidenuniv.nl J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
jdg#but-i-dont-like-spam.boxmail.com John David Galt
Jean-Marc.Leonard#skynet.be Leonard Jean-Marc
jeffrey.borkent#adelaide.edu.au Jeffrey Borkent
jenny-h#algonet.se Jenny Holmberg
jhaas#www.linuxppc.org Jason Haas
jhardin#wolfenet.com John D. Hardin
jimhowes#notout.demon.co.uk Jim Howes
jjd#primenet.com James J. Davis
jjohnson#netcis.com Jeremiah Johnson
jk#espy.org Joel Klecker
jkugler#inreach.com Joshua J. Kugler
jmalina#best.com Jo Ann Malina
jmcarlin#well.com Jerry Carlin
jmcgarry#uoguelph.ca James McGarry
jnieho38#calvin.edu Jonathan Niehof
john#man.ac.uk John Heaton
john#sodarock.com John Villalovos
john#thebeard.demon.co.uk John Robinson
jolomo#netcom.com Joey Morris
jon#dnb.com.au Jon Tveten
jonas#nethammer.qad.org Jonas Luster
jpatokal#iki.fi Jani Patokallio
jrj#Radix.Net Joseph R. Justice
jshin#pantheon.yale.edu Jungshik Shin
junga#leo.org Achim Jung
karney#princeton.edu Charles Karney
kat#yensid.ics.uci.edu Kathryn Fielding
kaukasoi#elektroni.ee.tut.fi Petri Kaukasoina
keith#quetz.demon.co.uk SPAN
kgasso#gpfn.org Kameron Gasso
kim#vejlegruppen.dk Kim Petersen
kimdv#best.com Kim DeVaughn
kkeller#dspeed.net Keith Keller
kleiss#HDPP.de Klaus - Guenter leiss
klemmerj#webtrek.com Joseph J Klemmer
kmself#ix.netcom.com Karsten M. Self
kreid#raytheon.com Kevin Reid
krotoff#chat.ru Oleg Krotoff
kwmelvin#YadTel.Net Kenneth W. Melvin
lcs#zk3.dec.com Larry Smith
LeBlanc#mcc.ac.uk Dr Audoenus V Le Blanc
Lee#PeakUSA.com Lee Sharp
lhelgela#c2i.net Lars Helgeland
lipo#bofh.at Roland E. Lipovits
liu#math.u-bordeaux.fr Qing Liu
lizard#austin.ibm.com Roy S. Moore
lnordstrom#home.se Lars Nordstrom
lofgren#sics.se Thomas Lofgren
lonstein#bigfoot.com Ross Lonstein
lt#toetsch.at Leopold Toetsch
M.Brendel#net.HCC.nl Michiel Brendel
Maf-Comp#wanadoo.fr Patrick Paysant
makmorn#qis.net Daniel Ligon
mark#cyberware.co.uk Mark Godfrey
martin#verwaltung.uni-mainz.de Christoph Martin
martin#zamenhof.demon.co.uk Martin Radford
matt#becon.org Matthew Walsh
matt#byu.edu Matthew Jeremy Wright
mau#beatles.cselt.it Maurizio Codogno
mbrandl#sbox.tu-graz.ac.at Manfred Brandl
megazone#best.com MegaZone
merlin#A470.demon.co.uk Darren Wyn Rees
mev0003#unt.edu
mfx#dasburo.com Markus Freericks
mguenthe#laboratory.ca Matthew Guenther
michael.nash#aethos.co.uk Michael Nash
Michael.Salmon#uab.ericsson.se Michael Salmon
mike#tara.demon.co.uk Mike Welch
mkc#kc.net Mike Coleman
mmaroti#math.Vanderbilt.Edu Miklos Maroti
mmcgraw#dal.asp.ti.com Mike McGraw
mpa#the-wire.com Marco Anglesio
mrmazda#gate.net Felix Miata
mtsys#gamebox.net Josh Tasker
munn#bigfoot.com Thomas Munn
myriad#acsol.net MyriaD FunStuffs
narem#simiansys.com Jim Narem
ncherry#home.net Neil Cherry
ncollins#vic.bigpond.net.au Neal Collins
nelson#media.mit.edu Nelson Minar
ng#mbi.ucla.edu Ho Leung Ng
nic.b#ihug.co.nz Nicholas Bellamy
NO-thomas.zajic#teleweb.at-SPAM Thomas Zajic
oboyle#csociety.purdue.edu Todd O'Boyle
ogun#usa.net Sean Peterson
oletzke#bigfoot.com Neil O.
Oliver#Henning.com Oliver Henning
p.mayers#ic.ac.uk Mayers, P J
patrick.leonard#cssystemes.cie-signaux.fr patrickk Leonard
pck#cedar.buffalo.edu P. C. Kilinskas
peacemkr#wcc.net Sam Morgan
Pekka.Viitasalo#atbusiness.com Pekka Viitasalo
pgarcia#fenua.univ-lyon1.fr Paulo Garcia
phil#panix.com Phil Gustafson
pieter#homnet.demon.nl Pieter van den Hombergh
pjennings#mediaone.net Peter Jennings
porter.clark#msfc.nasa.gov J. Porter Clark
ppawel#axess.com Peter Pawelek
pq#cs.man.ac.uk Paul Quare
pringle#cs.monash.edu.au GLen Pringle
pt97fjo#student.hk-r.se Fredrik Jonson
r.fulton#auckland.ac.nz Russell Fulton
r5555c#email.sps.mot.com Alan Chapman
raarts#netland.nl Ron Arts
raph#panache.demon.co.uk Raphael Mankin
ray#croftj.net Ray Brigleb
rayson_ho#hotmail.com Rayson Ho, University of Toronto
rayvan#javanet.com Ray Vanlandingham
redfruit#post9.tele.dk Kevin Steffer
renzo#cinci.science.unitn.it Lorenzo Vichi
rhampf#abo.fi Robert Hampf
ribbo#iinet.net.au Peter Robinson
rich#vax2.concordia.ca Rich Lafferty
rick#bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller
rkalda#web.net Robyn Kalda
rkracht#phoenix.aye.net Ron Kracht
rleyva#engr.csulb.edu Robert Leyva
rmcconne#lightlink.com Robert McConnell
rmccread#polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu Rob. McCready
robert.miletich#miletich.com Robert Miletich
robertj#wirehub.nl Robert Joosten
Roberto.Lupi#ascu.unian.it Roberto Lupi
robhudson#atdot.org Rob Hudson
rossing#iname.com Eric Rossing
rsteiner#visi.com Richard Steiner
rufinus#mbe.ece.wisc.edu J Rufinus
russell#lls.lls.com Russell Brown
ry#teleport.com ryannosaurus
s965#drone.ii.uib.no Trond Mjåtveit Hansen
saeboe#tele.ntnu.no Asbjørn Sæbø
scarblac-rt#pino.selwerd.cx Remco Gerlich
scholler#fsmb.tu-darmstadt.de Christoph Ulrich Scholler
scrosland#yahoo.com Simon Crosland
sean#ntr.net Sean McPherson
seva#null.cc.uic.edu Seva
sfisk#mail.pol.net Steve Fisk
shabba#csn.ul.ie Damian O'Sullivan
shimpei#submm.caltech.edu Shimpei Yamashita
shrdlu#pacbell.net Lynda L. True
siglercm#alphamb2.phys.vt.edu Clemmitt Sigler
sjkiii#crl.com Stan Kalisch III
sla#calvin.datapartner.no Stig Even Larsen
snevel#sonic.net Simeon Nevel
SRANGA#inf.com Rangarathnam.S
ssehbai#smarty.smart.net Faisal Shaheen
ssharkey#lanshark.com Scott Sharkey
ssm#rlyeh.net Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
staehle#netvalue.net Bill Staehle
stefan.roth#gtri.gatech.edu STEFAN P ROTH
stefano#zool.su.se Stefano Ghirlanda <stefano@zool.su.se>
Stephen.Oxley#its.monash.edu.au Stephen Oxley
stjs_ss#troi.cc.rochester.edu Scott Jennings
Stuart.Eichert.wh99#wharton.upenn.edu Stuart Eichert
suhlmann#gmx.de Stephan Uhlmann
syeates#cs.waikato.ac.nz stuart yeates
sylvan#cyberhighway.net Sylvan Butler
szalkai#2fkft.com Akos Szalkai
tc#Mcs.Net Thomas Cuny
tech33#wans.net Chris Campbell
terry#boon.u-net.com Terry Boon
tgm#netcom.com Thomas G. McWilliams
tgwilt#suite224.net Tom Gwilt
thom#idar.com Thomas G. McVeigh
thomasc#rl.af.mil Carl Thomas
thorfinn#netizen.com.au David Goh
TI95NEUK#de.ibm.com Andreas Neukoetter
tibor#lib.uaa.alaska.edu Michael Tibor
tim.kynerd#iname.com Tim Kynerd
Tomi.Ollila#tfi.net Tomi Ollila
Toni.Tiainen#DataFellows.com Toni Tiainen
trevort#inorth.on.ca Trevor Tymchuk
ts#UWasa.Fi Timo Salmi
tywon#mulder.fdf.net Tywon
umbrook0#cc.UManitoba.CA Steven Brooks
unistein#isbe.ch Peter Steiner
vinces#xs4all.nl Vincent Schonau
volz#epix.net Joseph S. Volz
vonbrand#inf.utfsm.cl Horst H. von Brand
wingate#worldpath.net John Wingate
wish#dumain.demon.co.uk Bill Hay
wiz#verinet.com Mike Craig
WmHBlair#verio.com William H. Blair
wrmattil#ix.netcom.com William R. Mattil
YoungmanJ#logica.com Youngman, James
ziembor#neuromancer.ceu.edu.pl Ziemek Borowski
Voted No
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alexis#aa.net Alexis Manning
dougob#the-spa.com D. O'Brien
geisler#chad.ece.nwu.edu Jonathan Geisler
jason#gaydeceiver.com Jason Steiner
kopetsbj#cs.purdue.edu Brett J. Kopetsky
myers#umich.edu Eric Myers
naddy#mips.rhein-neckar.de Christian Weisgerber
olav#viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar
Rice_Krispy#my-dejanews.com Daniel Rock
stainles#bga.com Dwight Brown
tobez#plab.ku.dk Anton Berezin
voland#plab.ku.dk Vadim Belman
yan#storm.ca Yves Bellefeuille
Abstained
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chris#kzim.com Christopher Robin Zimmerman
chriseb#nortelnetworks.com Chris Ebenezer
Votes in error
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ed#twin-cities.com ed bertsch
! Conflicting votes
root#dgrunt.sneakernet.com Ken Braun
! Invalid address