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Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails
New submitter outofluck70 (1734164) writes Got an email today from Microsoft, text is below. [Note: text here edited for formatting and brevity; see the full text at seclists.org.] They are no longer going to send out emails regarding patches, you have to use RSS or keep visiting their security sites. They blame "governmental policies" as the reason. What could the real reason be? Anybody in the know? From the email: "Notice to IT professionals: As of July 1, 2014, due to changing governmental policies concerning the issuance of automated electronic messaging, Microsoft is suspending the use of email notifications that announce the following: Security bulletin advance notifications; Security bulletin summaries; New security advisories and bulletins; Major and minor revisions to security advisories and bulletins. In lieu of email notifications, you can subscribe to one or more of the RSS feeds described on the Security TechCenter website." WindowsIT Pro blames Canada's new anti-spam law.
I don't know why subscribe and unsubscribe would not satisfy those laws but apparently MS is convinced they don't... so...
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
That's the way it should be. If you want to subscribe to something, use RSS. That's totally under the control of the recipient. If you unsubscrbe from an RSS feed, there's no way the sender can keep sending to you.
It's easy to follow an RSS feed if you're using Thunderbird; a bit harder if you're a Google slave.
Only emails of a commercial nature are banned without opt-in.
A security notice is not an email of a commercial nature, unless it also contains marketing offers etc.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
This is just a guess, but I believe your assessment why you were modded down is correct. Making comments that might offend people has consequences.
Your post is off topic, and bashes Microsoft for things not relevant. As for your previous posts, having modded comments, previous posts are pretty much impossible to find. Modding is based on the current comment.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft. I've been playing and working with computers since before Microsoft existed. I've posted on this thread. Canada is the party at fault, Microsoft is just responding to a stupid law.
I love bashing Microsoft, but the pickings have been slim lately, they're failing. They won't go out of business, but their clout is gone.
Canada is the party at fault, Microsoft is just responding to a stupid law.
Whats stupid about requiring people to opt-in? Microsoft could always add an unsubscribe option and ask Canadians if they want to receive their spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
I never got E-mails from Micro$oft about updates, vulnerabilities, etc. Instead, I have an RSS feed from US-CERT (computer emergency response team), an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Yes, they do have a few useful functions.) US-CERT not only notifies me about Micro$oft's alerts and provides links to them, but that agency also notifies me of alerts from other companies.
The link to subscribe to the RSS feed is http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/cu....
I don't see how. Just as Windows has Classic Shell, Linux has Xfce.
That system requirements increased very little since Windows Vista is mostly true. Windows 8.1 added the requirement for NX and SSE2 support in the CPU. Do all Atom CPUs support those?
I think you must be confused, Linux requires none of the things you just mentioned, and neither does a linux-based OS.
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