[4523] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: This Old List; with your host, owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Cuykens)
Thu Feb 20 05:35:05 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:51:49 +0100
From: Anthony Cuykens <acuykens@ulb.ac.be>
Reply-To: acuykens@ulb.ac.be
To: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
Cc: dave <tel1dvw@ups.com>, "Leslie A. Sherman" <shermanl@RTK.NET>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Jacob Rose wrote:
>
> Mr. Owner, please read this message.
>
> Anthony Cuykens wrote:
>
> > Think about that: you will have no less stupid messages, the only
> > difference is that they will all contains on of the key word (if th key
> > word was security, this message is good but it doesn't speek of anything
> > about security.)
>
> Not to mention the countless times you'd undoubtedly reply to someone's
> message and forget to incorporate the magic words into your message. I
> don't understand why the list owner hasn't just unsubscribed everyone and
> let us resubscribe on our own. It makes the most sense of any idea
> heretofore proposed, it shouldn't be a big deal to implement, and it would
> make a lot of people who can't spell "unsubscribe" very happy.
>
> I think putting the web page address and the instructions for
> unsubscribing in a trailer on each message is also a good idea -
> preventative maintenance.
>
> One last idea that would be nice is something I saw done on the
> Solaris x86 list: they put a short identifier (in their case, "Sx86;") at
> the beginning of every *subject* field that comes across the list. This
> makes it easy to identify which messages are list stuff and which are
> personal messages when looking at your mail. I propose "W3Sec;" for the
> subject prefix.
>
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I totaly agree on this point of view (i agree on peace too). I wonder
why we do not have any message rom the administrator of this list.
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Anthony Cuykens
Researcher in Computer Science, Security
Free university of Brussels (ULB) Belgium
e-mail: mailto://acuykens@ulb.ac.be
url: http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/scsi/acuykens/home_page.html
phone: +32 2 650.56.01 s-mail: Boulevard du triomphe, cp 212
fax: +32 2 650.56.09 1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
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