> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Nagy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>[snip]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham, Randy (RAW) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:36 AM
> >
> > I feel a repost of Ben Nagy's e-mail on this topic from
> last summer is
> > particularly appropriate at this time (see below).
>
> You mean _winter_, right? ;)
Ah, you down-under folks really screw the rest of us up when you talk about
seasons. Don't you know everything important happens in northern
hemisphere? :-0
More importantly, I forgot to point out when posting that the original
message had a subject "OT:My cat's name is fluffy" and recieved around a
dozen responses, some of which tailed off-topic from the original post.
> > maybe it is time we ask the moderator
> > to be a little
> > more selective in letting things through to the list.
>
> It's a delicate balance between having a moderator (which we
> don't) and
> having a list with broader discussion and faster responses.
> MJR's list is
> good, but can be slow when he's off having a life.
Yea, I keep forgetting which list I'm posting to (not that I make many posts
to either). Obviously I thought I was posting to fw-wiz, forgetting which
list I was reading at the time. I must say, I'm far more likely to read
most of fw-wiz than this list when I return from a trip and have 400+
messages to sort through. Moderation does slow things down, but also keeps
signal/noise ratios. Tough trade-off, but it is nice to have a list
moderated and one unmoderated to chose from.
> > And
> > people, please
> > learn to use a search engine before saying "Can anyone tell
> > me where to find
> > info on topic X?"
>
> Oh yes. A thousand times yes.
>
> Maybe, if we don't want a moderator (which I don't,
> personally), we could
> think about an FAQ? I keep getting the urge to send posts
> saying "You find
> it on Google. Read the FAQ."
A FAQ would be great. I've even written some tiny parts of one. I keep
trying to find time to get stuff going on http://www.securitynewbie.com/ and
put some sort of FAQ up there, but it never seems to happen. Anyone want to
put in some work? I'd be glad to find and pay for a host for my domain if I
could just find the time to actually make the site or someone willing to
take on some of the workload to get it going.
BTW, anyone else get e-mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] in response to
posts on the firewalls list? I've gotten a couple of messages with (poorly
created/hidden) trojans. Just curious.
> > Randy Graham
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ben Nagy
> Network Security Specialist
> Marconi Services Australia Pty Ltd
> Mb: +61 414 411 520 PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304
Randy Graham
-
[To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
