Brian, Excellent list! All are great topics. A lot of them are very broad in scope though. Perhaps they would be better suited as in introductory presentation to a long-running discussion -- I'm thinking GSA topics here.
Anyway, I'd like to put my vote on topic 1. I think it'd be great to have an introductory talk on the techniques for combating spam. Then, have an open forum discussion of the ramifactions of the filtering techniques. Spam filtering is the next "big thing" on the tech horizon IMHO. Those companies, ISPs, etc that haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet probably have some anti-spam technology in their 2006 budgets. Addition of this technology will/does affect the way we communicate -- business practices will need to change. So... it's very important -- now the email is the "killer application" -- that we all have an understanding of the new email dataflow model. We'll keep the polls open though. So vote! I've no doubt spam will be on the "discussion platter" within the next few months regardless of the results. - Sebastian On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Brian Morris wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sebastian, > > I could present one. Pick one from this list, if you like (the topics > would be presented from a fully Linux-centric point of view): > > 1) Fighting spam at the server/ISP level (Sendmail-intensive) > 2) Post-instrusion tracing/investigation > 3) Social engineering (and how to not be a victim of it) > 4) The birth & death of a TCP packet/stream > 5) Advanced syslog control > 6) Network and physical attack vectors > 7) How telephony works > 8) Intro to BGP & OSPF > > Brian > > Sebastian Smith wrote: > > We have a beginner-level topic for next month. I'm not sure of the > > official title, but it is an introduction to the Vi/Vim editors. If you > > don't use Vi/Vim you should attend the meeting because they are fantastic > > -- especially for coding. > > > > Would anyone like present an advanced-level topic? > > > > - Sebastian > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDpg8I8iwHek1OcGYRAonnAJ43Oj4OdcUyRThA3vp3Ya+e63lzTgCdFLLt > rMfpHRqWozjq/RfGOYJQga8= > =YZDm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
