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Re: List Direction and Future
From: Thomas Cannon <tcannon () noops org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:37:49 -0700
Schmehl, Paul L said:
OK. Everyone else that feels compelled to tell the world that they are unsubscribing from this *unmoderated* list, please step forward and give your name, rank and serial number. Let's get this over with quick.
But what fun is that? I mean, while it is patently moronic to add to the noise that one is complaining about, can't we at least have one little diatribe against everybody announcing that they're quitting the list? I mean -- every week, sometimes even two or three times a week, some goober with nothing to offer sends in some rant about how people don't stay on topic, about how so and so is childish, or how the (largely imaginary) blackhats should overthrough the (largely imaginary) whitehats. Each of these rants is near cut and paste of the one before it, and they're always from people who just signed up and are now threatening to leave unless the moderator steps in and takes over as sheriff in this uncivilized wild west border town. After all, with a name like "full-disclosure", which sounds vaguely like some old man in a trench coat loitering outside a middle school, someone needs to step in, and we all know we're just one more rant away from some Big Changes. I don't think we can just have people piss their last, sending off some "that's it -- I quit" as their one and only contribution to the list without someone rattling their sabers and calling on the group to somehow chastize these people in some grand way that can only be done here in cyberspace. For as we all know, this is a serious place, and we're all very serious people, and if we don't stick to the list charter nothing but chaos will ensue, and everybody will have to go back to waiting for CERT to let you know how you were broken into 14 months ago. I welcome all your auto-responses and vacation messages.
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
Cheers, -tcannon -- By the time you read this, I will be dead. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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