[4178] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: What is happening to this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Neruda)
Wed Jan 29 11:27:25 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:42:36 -0500
From: Steve Neruda <nerudas@nationwide.com>
To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
CC: chris arisso <carisso@kendall.mdcc.edu>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
David W. Morris wrote:
>
> Some time back a suggestion was made that a new list be formed.
> I've heard nothing more, but a possibly interesting approach to clean up
> of subscriptions has occured to me ...
>
> Perhaps with concensus of the list, we could get the list operator to
> announce that all subscriptions would require renewal. Then delete
> ALL subscriptions.
>
> Everyone who wants to be on the list would have to re-subscribe and
> perhaps the many folks who can't remember how to unsubscribe would
> be nicely dropped and we'd all be happier.
>
> Dave
The RFC on mailing list in fact suggests doing this (I think they call
it rolling the list). Best of Security (BOS) did this recently and
it cleaned up things quite a bit. I think this is a great idea.
SteveN
