[3280] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: you creeps (anonymous messages *should* be permitted here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Cronin)
Thu Oct 17 10:37:15 1996
From: John Cronin <John.Cronin@oit.gatech.edu>
To: dcoe@overlord.com (David Coe)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:38:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32659DDF.3C1B@overlord.com> from "David Coe" at Oct 16, 96 10:45:51 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Once upon a time, David Coe told me this tale:
->
->John Cronin wrote:
->
->> ... It is an anonymous remailer. I looked at his home
->> page (http://www.obscura.com/~loki/), and the thing looks pretty
->> unbreakably anonymous to me, for all intents and purposes. loki did
->> say that he could block our list from his site (ie it won't send
->> email to the list). I personally don't have any problem with that,
->> but I can't make any decisions for the list.
->
->I feel it would be unwise to block anonymous messages into this list;
->since we discuss security, and occasionally security exposures or
->weaknesses, I want everyone to have the ability to discuss problems
->without revealing their sites or identities when they feel that's
->important.
->
->Regarding the occasional inappropriate posts, I don't mind ignoring
->them; if many people feel they're too prevalent I'd prefer a
->moderated list to one which doesn't permit anonymous postings.
I don't mind the posts as much as all the noise they generate (ie the
kind of stuff you and I are posting now). I could much more easily
ignore one or two off color posts than the 50 off topic messages that
follow. I have no problem with anonymous emailers, but I do have a
problem with the 12 years olds with crayons scribbling their juvenile
grafitti (sp?) in inappropriate places. It won't ruin my life or any-
thing, it is just another aggravation.
I do prefer a moderated group, but I am not willing to ask others to do
something that I am not willing to do myself (ie moderate this group).
If we can get somebody to moderate the group, that would be great.
If we make it so that only subscribers can post, it is still possible
for inappropriate postings to make it in. If I wanted to do it, I
would subscribe, then post. Of course, if we do it right (ie have to
mail a receipt back, which MUST be replied to), we can make it difficult
for the real newbies, but some people will eventually get around it.
Even with a moderated group, somebody will probably find a way around
the moderator, but I believe that moderation is the best option (provided
somebody else does the work, of course ;-).
--
John Cronin
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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