INTRO TO NSFNET-CERT

["Steven J. Richardson" <sjr () merit edu>]

NSFNET-CERT members:

  PLEASE DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE MESSAGES TO "nsfnet-cert () merit edu".
MESSAGES WILL BE SENT TO SOME SUBLISTS WITH THE SUBJECT "HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE"...

  Please bear with me; it seems that my earlier communication was not as
clear as it could have been.

  WHAT IS THIS LIST ANYWAY?
  ========================
  First, nsfnet-cert was set up a while ago in order to give the NSFNET
community a quick means of distributing CERT-related information (CERT =
Computer Emergency Response Team = security/hacker/bugfix task force,
essentially).  Due to the nature of this sort of information, moderating
the list (to remove "unsubscribe" messages) doesn't seem to be the
answer.  For the same reason, setting the "from" field to
nsfnet-cert-request () merit edu doesn't seem to be as attractive an option
as it would normally be.

  Second, the list on merit.edu is a list of other lists, some of which
are at other sites:

nsfnet-cert:
 BRENDAN () otago ac nz,
 ken () VNET IBM COM (Ken Paquette),
 n.brownlee () aukuni ac nz,
 mhageman () empros com (Mary Hageman),
 dar () cadcentre co uk (D.Ashton-Reader),
 mckee () sunbelt net (Tim McKee),
 cert () ncar ucar edu,                 <<  You are probably
 ops () noc sura net,                   <<  on one of these lists
 nsfnet-cert-ml () ux1 cso uiuc edu,    <<  if the list name 
 nwnet-cert () nwnet net,                       <<  doesn't seem familiar.
 nsfnet-cert () spot colorado edu,              <<  These lists are
 nsfnet-cert () rice edu,                       <<  NOT located on merit.edu
 cert () cic net,                               <<  so I can't take you off.
 merit-cert,            # some local Merit people
 regional-techs,        # Regional/Midlevel Technicians
 ntc,                   # NSFNET technical committee
 nsfnet-mgmt            # NSFNET managers; NSF-types, etc.

  If you are a "regional tech" (a technical person who works in one of
the adjacent ASs of AS 690, the NSFNET/ANSnet backbone), then you
probably understand that this list could be useful.

  If you are not, then you are probably on one of the exploders
indicated by the "<<" in the above listing.

  NOTE:  I cannot take you off of the lists indicated by "<<" above. 


  Thanks,


  Steve Richardson/Merit
  
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