[2689] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Has Rutgers orphaned the www-security mailing list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chil - Chihli Lu)
Mon Aug 19 12:34:08 1996
From: "Chil - Chihli Lu" <luchihli@schiaparelli.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:37:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
"Has Rutgers orphaned the www-security mailing list?" (Aug 19, 9:12am)
To: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>, toad@Imperative.com (Todd Kaufmann),
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Aug 19, 9:12am, Prentiss Riddle wrote:
> There is evidence to suggest that the WWW Security Team at Rutgers has
> orphaned the list. The charter, in particular, is out of date (it says
> that www-security is the discussion group for the IETF working group on
> web security, but I'm told that that group has had its own separate
> mailing list for some time now). I'm referring to the description of
> the list at:
>
> http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/www-security/index.html
> http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/www-security/www-security-list.html
>
> And there have been so many reports of problems unsubscribing from the
> www-security list that it's hard for me to believe they are all due to
> user error.
Believe me... a lot of the problems were due to user error. I unsubscribe
people manually often because the users moved from accounts to accounts and
cannot remember which user@host they used to subscribe.
> Even with all of its problems, the www-security mailing list is an
> extremely important forum. I wish that someone from Rutgers would show
> an interest in this list again by updating and publicizing the charter
> and by testing the unsubscription mechanism. Active participation in the
> list, encouraging on-topic threads and discouraging off-topic ones,
> would be even better.
I will try and look into a better way for people to unsubscribe. Please keep
in mind the following.
www-security has many subscriptions that are local lists to certain
organizations. eg: www-security@rice.edu may have an entry and if someone is
on www-security@rice. There is no way for them to get off of www-security by
way of sending majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu. It would require cooperation and
help from the people who setup the local www-security list from rice.edu.
Also,
many times the user cannot keep track of their .forward files and it's hard to
find exactly which user@host they signed up as when the userid isn't even
close.
-chil
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