RedHat forks OpenSSH?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 15:23, Damien Miller wrote:
> It has just come to my notice that Redhat is planning to ship a
> forked version of OpenSSH. The change goes beyond the usual 
> patches applied to RPMs in the build process: Redhat have built 
> their own OpenSSH tarball and are using that in their source RPM
> instead of the official release distribution. If you are
> interested, have a look at the openssh-3.9p1-7.src.rpm from the
> Fedora development/ directory.
> 

Do you find that a cross-posted missive to a set of lists like this is:
1. less or more inflammatory than a post to the openssh maintainer
@redhat.com?
2. less or more productive than an entry in bugzilla about the details?

Thanks
-sv