Re: Coincidence or bold spammer?

["Duksta, John C." <John_Duksta () BROWN EDU>]

I'm thinking her request might have been better received if she had simply
posted a call for papers to the list rather than directly contacting list
members.

-j

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John Duksta <John_Duksta () brown edu>
Lead IT Security Engineer
Computing and Information Services
Brown University
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On 4/12/07 10:48 AM, "Joel Rosenblatt" <joel () COLUMBIA EDU> wrote:

> I agree with Bob - there should be a security-d list - that may keep the
> signal to noise ratio on this list down to a reasonable number.
>
> My 2 cents
>
> Joel Rosenblatt
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
>
>
> --On Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:31 AM -0400 Bob Mahoney <bobmah () MIT EDU>
> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Magdalena Błaszczyk wrote:
> >
> > > I am really sorry you found my email SPAM. It was not. I just
> > > wanted to invite
> > > all of you to cooperation. Is it a sin?
> >
> > Well, it is a real magazine I have actually read, so I'd vote "no" here.
> >
> > Authors have to come from somewhere...  and security professionals are
> > notoriously over-busy.  Magazines, conferences, and publishing houses have to
> > work
> > hard to find content.  And we'd all like quality content to be available,
> > right?
> >
> > Most of what I've seen on the list lately have been meta-discussions focused
> > on vendor roles and what is or isn't valuable list traffic.  I half-seriously
> > wonder if there needs to be a SECURITY-DISCUSS list apart from the
> > DISCUSS-SECURITY list...  :-)
> >
> > -Bob
>
>
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel

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