[3338] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (esmeralda)
Wed Oct 23 06:20:48 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:05:56 +0200
From: esmeralda <curs08@cinet.fcr.es>
To: hallam@ai.mit.edu
CC: Steff.Watkins@Bristol.ac.uk, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
hallam@ai.mit.edu wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> Phillsorry, no entiendo el ingles, perdoneme
