Re: distros list archive

[Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>]

Hi,

I've just updated the headers-only archives of (linux-)distros mentioned
in the message below to include headers of everything posted until
December 31, 2020.  There was relatively little need for this for a
while due to the statistics kindly maintained by Gentoo, but now those
are lagging behind (last updated until September 2019 inclusive).  They
will need to also be updated, and I felt updating these archives might
help with hopefully making that upcoming update and with its review.

Alexander

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:42:05PM +0100, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 06:39:50PM +0200, Solar Designer wrote:
> > I've just set up these archives of the private lists up until June 19:
> >
> > http://www.openwall.com/lists/linux-distros/
> > http://www.openwall.com/lists/distros/
> >
> > I did not decrypt the actual messages, but the statistics and the
> > message headers should provide some visibility into how much and roughly
> > what was discussed and when.
>
> I've just updated these with message headers until November 19 (although
> there was nothing posted after November 9, until further still-embargoed
> messages appeared today).
>
> > The messages appearing on distros should be strictly a subset of those
> > appearing on linux-distros, as per the description of the lists here:
> >
> > http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros
> >
> > As you may notice, the Subject lines sometimes contain [vs] and other
> > times [vs-plain].  This reflects whether the messages traveled to the
> > list exploder in encrypted or plaintext form, respectively.  They
> > traveled to the list members in re-encrypted form either way.  The
> > [vs-plain] case commonly occurs on messages CC'ed to other parties, for
> > which the sender might not have had the keys.  MUAs generally don't
> > allow a message to be encrypted to a subset of the addressees and sent
> > in plaintext to others.
> >
> > Enjoy.
>
> Alexander