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From: full-disclosure () lists netsys com (Steve)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:04:54 -0600
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Of course, there's also the Yet-Another-Mailing-List factor. [1]
The more the merrier. Having only one or two mailing lists that report vulnerabilities is like having only one or two newspapers. The key difference between VulnWatch and this new and welcomed addition, is the fact that VulnWatch doesn't allow the discussions. This was done because many complained that their mailbox would have 300+ messages a day which makes it easy to miss the important stuff..
Then, there's also the added irony of the list archives only being available to list members. But it's a brand new list, so I'll not make too much noise about that.
Well, at least they have list archives. :-) Ours are still at Neohapsis, mostly a time thing for us as all of the VulnWatch moderators have day jobs that constantly run into after hours.....blah...
[1] (although, that's not exactly a bad thing.. I, personally, get so much crap in my inbox that when serious issues do crop up, they're often crossposted to all N mailing lists, which makes it stand out a little. ...And some lists deliver faster than others...)
One of the issues that causes a delay in message delivery is the subscriber base. I know this was definitely true with Listserv -- the first few people to subscribe get messages nice and quick while the last few get messages much later. Take Bugtraq for example, if you are subscriber 10 you will most likely see the message long before subscriber 20000 sees it. Mind you now that they are off of Listserv this problem might have been addressed. I have yet to do any performance testing for VulnWatch. Unfortunately, cross posting is the only bad side to multiple mailing lists. Regards; Steve Manzuik Founder & Technical Lead Entrench Technologies www.entrenchtech.com Moderator - VulnWatch www.vulnwatch.org - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- www.csicon.net -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPS0R9WWolZy6IFPhEQKBHQCglN9/EeJnXL/tlvf2ctRAp5JfjHEAn3Ui 5y5Z8hFLNQ92fwsD9SladIF2 =JMyf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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