Re: Vendor Participation on List and Proper Identification

["Parker, Ron" <Ron.Parker () BRAZOSPORT EDU>]

Mr. "Harry A'Hole" here, posting from his anonymous community network
account, just made my original point perfectly.

I'd like to see the list leaders chime in at this point? Can we please
get some sort of screening process set up for who can be on these lists?
All I want is for some responsible person to look at requests to join
the list and verify that the person making the request has any business
being here. If you want to allow all .edu domains by default and only
deal with others, fine. I'd really like to have the list archives closed
or sanitized as well. I don't see how we can carry on productive,
professional conversations in this venue with the amount of noise that
is in this system currently. 

--
Ron Parker, Director of Information Technology, Brazosport College
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry A'Hole [mailto:madman () MYEASTSIDE COM] 
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Vendor Participation on List and 
> Proper Identification
>
> Jason,
>
> It's hard to complain to educase "protecting its members" 
> when you send your email with your name, title, school and 
> department, phone, fax and email address at the bottom.  A 
> group list by definition will send your message to everyone 
> on the list, and the list doesn't require people to pass a 
> security test in order to join. One odd bit is that educase 
> does send the email from your email, display as 
> A00JER2 () WPO CSO NIU EDU, and educase probably should avoid 
> leaking that.
>
> Harry
>
>
> Jason Richardson wrote:
>
> > As troubling to me were the e-mail AND phone call that I 
> received from
> > the labor union representing hotel service employees who are 
> striking to
> > force a new contract with hotels in San Francisco.  Apparently, by
> > becoming a member of Educause I exposed my contact info to this union
> > who has been spamming me to boycott the hotels.  I called Educause to
> > complain and they apologized (as they have to many others who called)
> > and removed me from their public directory.  I have not had 
> this problem
> > by becoming a member of other professional orgs.  IMO, 
> Educause needs to
> > do a better job of protecting its members.
> >
> > ---
> > Jason Richardson
> > Manager, IT Security and Client Development
> > Enterprise Systems Support
> > Northern Illinois University
> > Voice: 815-753-1678
> > Fax: 815-753-2555
> > jasrich () niu edu
> >