[3332] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hallam@ai.mit.edu)
Tue Oct 22 17:43:39 1996
From: hallam@ai.mit.edu
To: Steff.Watkins@Bristol.ac.uk, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Cc: hallam@ai.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 96 10:04:45 BST."
<9610210904.AA02207@sun.cse.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 15:46:04 -0400
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>Maybe the suggestion last week that the list be moderated would be a good
>one to keep off-topic and spam emails out of our mailboxes. This would
>require more of a co-ordination effort, but would probably pay back
>bigtime as the list would then be more topic specific.
The problem as I see it is that the people administering the list
are not...
>Also, if you were to create another mailing list, all the bone-fide users
>here would have to go through the hasle of unsubscribing from one list and
>subscribing to another.
Subscribing to a Majordomo list is not too difficult. Unsubscribing may be
another matter :-)
Its a long accepted practice in the IETF that lists should be periodically
"turned". There is pressure to do this with the HTTP list sometime at the
start of next year just to remove the number of people who "unsubscribed"
by putting it in their killfile.
www-security has been arround for over three years, its long overdue for
a spring clean IMHO.
Phill
