On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jose Nazario wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
>
> > I don't think Marcus was doing most of the -wiz moderation recently
> > anyway. In any case, is there much interest in a fully moderated, more
> > generic security list? Off-list replies are most welcome, since I don't
> > want to clog the list.
>
> such lists already exist. there's no need for them to be added to. this is
> a firewalls list, and its done a very good job of it normally. let's try
> and keep it that way.
>
> i'm close to volunteering to help out with the weeding the spam from the
> legitimate traffic (a very easy line to observe) if that would help.
Agreed in part, some of the securityfocus hosted lists are over<ly|tly>
moderated.
Though, spam is less of an issue then *clueless* use of vacation messages,
broked anti-viri/bad-word filters, and requests to unsubscribe, even when
footers and mail headers give a clue.
procmail has been a friend to weedout cluelessness here...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart
***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!***
OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.
--
Firewalls mailing list - [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
To unsubscribe: http://www.isc.org/services/public/lists/firewalls.html
