Re: OT: vendor contacts after list posting

["Tim M. Crawford" <tcrawford () GSB STANFORD EDU>]

David,
I agree with you. I have had the same issue. Interestingly, it came up in
two discussions just yesterday here at the Educause Security conference too.
In one case, the discussion was around creating a separate (non-Educause)
list to discuss issues without the fear of vendors engaging those in the
discussion.

One option would be to require .edu addresses in order to participate on
these lists. But I don¹t know how viable that solution would be.

Tim


On 4/11/07 8:51 AM, "David Boyer" <David () BVU EDU> wrote:

> For what it's worth, not long after making this posting I was contacted by
> Bradford Networks about their NAC products. I'm not sure how everyone else
> feels, but it's a real turn off for me when vendors troll these constituent
> group discussions to generate sales leads.
>  
> Maybe this is common practice and I'm just being naive. Any thoughts?
>
> > > > > > >   David Boyer wrote:
>
> > > Anyone familiar with Ciscos Network Admission Control (formerly Cisco
> > > Clean Access, formerly Perfigo), Juniper Infranet, Symantec Network
> > > Access Control or similar software/appliances?
> > >  
> > > Like many schools, we have a 1:1 ration of computers to students. We'd
> > > like to avoid letting vulnerable or malware-infected systems onto our
> > > network while simultaneously addressing the infection or
> > > vulnerability. Almost all of our systems are running Windows XP or
> > > Windows 2000.
> > >  
> > > I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with these or
> > > similar solutions. Any open-source solutions that you know of?
> > >  


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Stanford Graduate School of Business
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