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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ -----Original Message----- From: David Bernick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:57 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
