[3152] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: SPAMS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Mon Oct 7 16:07:00 1996
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:39:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3258169B.4E60@virtualscope.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Dean Bowes wrote:
> I don't appreciate being spammed or e-mailed someone's personal resume
> or job qualifications from the > www-security distribution list.
Me neither ... but I like even less the autobot messages from subscribers
to this list telling me/us they are out of town. On that score, this is the
worst of several lists I subscribe to related to the Internet. This morning
was the ultimate ... 5 autobot messages from the same person, sent today,
re. posts made over the last week.
> vendors, and that an SSL based web site is what everyone "should" be
> running. Bloomingdale's might want to
Should is a bit strong considering the performance impact on the server and
user. For starters, the vast majority of web sites have nothing worth
that much protection. Even for credit card transfer, I am much more
concerned with what happens to the credit card after the transfer than
during the transfer. One well known ISP apparently had 20K credit cards
available online for the convenience of a crafty cracker. Would you trust
a site that lies about the encryption of its transactions to store your
credit card safely? Not I.
> Would the moderator of the www-security please address the spams that
> are occurring? I don't mind the debates
Well for starters, this list is not moderated. Nada ...
Dave Morris
