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Re: Feeding Stray Cats


From: "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:54:30 -0800

I get such a kick out of these threads, which invariably generate
*gobs* of discussion that has *nothing* to do with security...maybe
we need the "FD subscribers opinions on FD" list.

Let's face it...this list is a mixed bag - some with clue, some without.
My personal suggestion (flames off list pls) is that those with clue (you
know who you are) do a google on "gracious" because clue comes with
responsibility. Where would the clued be without those who went before
to help smooth the path to clueness?

Speaking of responsibility, in a security related vein, those caring about
the signal to noise ratio of the list who would like to flame me anyway
may flame me live and in person.  I am giving a security talk (an 
ill-prepared one, likely) in the SF Bay Area at BAFUG:

http://www.bafug.org/ 

The talk is on CBOSS and TrustedBSD and security in general. So come eat
this Thursday in Millbrae. So come on down and have at it (tip nicely pls).

And to those who filtered this post, too bad :-p

G

On or about 2003.11.10 11:38:17 +0000, Kenneth Ekdahl (sensei () sensei nu) said:

One way to solve this could be to split this list into two; one
moderated and one un-moderated. All mail gets sent to the un-moderated
list, to avoid the suspicions of censorship that makes this list
different from bugtraq, and those mail that pass moderation, or is sent
from someone who is known from previous posts to be serious, will also
be sent to the moderated list.

That way anybody i able to choose between two levels of noise.

Just like open source software is often more secure, not because
everybody reads all the source code, but everybody knows that many who
really are interested in security issues reads the source, and will
report any problems.

The same goes for my idea above, no-one has to read the un-moderated
list, but everybody has the chance to do it.

-- 
Gregory A. Gilliss, CISSP                              E-mail: greg () gilliss com
Computer Security                             WWW: http://www.gilliss.com/greg/
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