Full Disclosure mailing list archives
RE: Administrivia: Poll
From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:30:50 -0500
While I fully agree with your sentiments (articulated below) and I personally am not having a problem with anyone's posts, I *do* think that the *purpose* of this list is full *disclosure*, which refers to the posting of and discussion of security vulnerabilities. ISTM therefore that anything *other* than that would be off topic for this list. While many lists that I subscribe to can divert into off topic discussions, they are usually killed relatively quickly by a moderator. My suggestion to Len et al would be to allow unmoderated discussion of security vulnerabilities and security-related issues and to moderate everything else. I personally don't see the point in discussing various cultural tendencies or the political possibilities of various countries. This is, after all, an international list, and those discussions will impact a small minority of the posters. IOW, make the list what it was intended to be; full *disclosure*, not full *discussion*. Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ -----Original Message----- From: David Bernick [mailto:bernz () bernztech org] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:57 AM Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Administrivia: Poll -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone who has had the intellect to find and sign up for this list has the intellect and ability to set up procmail filters or client side filters or some other way to filter something. So someone harrasses the list, so someone does stuff you don't like? Filter it. It's really that simple. Moderating ANYONE is a really really bad idea on a Full-Disclosure list. I would think that any person really interested in security is signed up to about 20 lists or so. Plenty have noise. You have to learn how to filter it. Just like you do with the rest of your life. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Re: Administrivia: Poll, (continued)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll S . f . Stover (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll Shawn McMahon (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll Martin Ekendahl (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll noconflic (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll Paul M. Hirsch (Jun 12)
- The point, kids. Mike Fratto (Jun 12)
- Re: The point, kids. Paul M. Hirsch (Jun 12)
- The point, kids. Mike Fratto (Jun 12)
- waste of time (was Re: Administrivia: Poll) Rick Updegrove (Jun 12)
- Re: waste of time (was Re: Administrivia: Poll) Chris Vicious (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll j. p. (Jun 12)
- RE: Administrivia: Poll Schmehl, Paul L (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll Riad S. Wahby (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll Jason (Jun 12)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll dev-null (Jun 13)
- Re: Re: Administrivia: Poll Andreas Gietl (Jun 13)
- Re: Re: Administrivia: Poll Shawn McMahon (Jun 16)
- Re: Re: Administrivia: Poll Steve (Jun 18)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Poll Steve Wray (Jun 18)
- Re: Re: Administrivia: Poll Andreas Gietl (Jun 13)
- [OFFTOPIC] - moderated sublist announcement Kurt Seifried (Jun 13)
- Re: Administrivia: Poll martin f krafft (Jun 13)