Re: Signal to Noise Ratio

["Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>]

This is an English speaking list. Please translate.

Grow up.

J

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:07:15 -0400 3APA3A <3APA3A () SECURITY NNOV RU> 
wrote:
> Dear jason () killerinterviews com,
>
> --Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 5:02:16 PM, you wrote to full-
> disclosure () lists grok org uk:
>
> jkc>   It seems to me the average SNR here could be greatly 
> improved with any
> jkc> one of several commonly available "community-based" filtering
> jkc> mechanisms.  Digg and Slashdot are both examples of what I'm 
> suggesting.
>
> This  subject  arises  here  twice  an  year.  List needs 
> _professional_
> moderation, like Bugtraq has. because:
>
> 1.  Next  thing  to  research  will  be  attacks against community-
> based
> filtering mechanisms.
>
> 2.  No, thanks, see enough "community moderators" things with 
> Wikipedia,
> where  sense  of  good always hits common sense. It's well known 
> who has
> high  desire  to moderate: not a professional with deep topic 
> knowledge.
> Michael   Zalewski  was  filtered  from  "hackers"  for  few  
> years  for
> self-promotion  (Was  it  Stallman  who  edited  this article or 
> 15-year
> schoolboy  who  read nothing but few articles about... let me 
> remember..
> Melissa  worm?). Bad for you, Michael, you promote yourself again! 
> I was
> not  able  to  add article about free open source software, as I 
> am only
> listed software developer (I really am): it's promotion. Just 
> wonder: if
> somebody  looks for specific software in Wikipedia, is it better 
> to have
> potentially  promotional  article  from  it's  developer  or do 
> not have
> article at all?
>
>
> -- 
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>
>
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