[714] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Overlapping lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philippe Parmentier)
Wed May 17 21:20:32 1995
From: cdp@ecmwf.int (Philippe Parmentier)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 17 May 95 23:16:12 BST
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X-Date Wed May 17 23:16:12 BST 1995
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In a previous mail , Prentiss Riddle wrote :
>
> >
> > Is there a reason for three separate completely overlapped lists on the
> > same topic? Can we merge them into one list?
> >
> > If not, can someone enunciate some clear principles for differentiating
> > what should be on each list?
>
> I don't know about the other two, but the www-security list has a very
> important function which overlaps only minimally with the subject of
> e-payment: to discuss security holes in HTTP servers and clients and
> how to fix them.
>
> I agree that moving e-payment traffic out of www-security and into the
> other list(s) might be a good idea, if only because it will create a
> less noisy place in which to discuss security-related WWW bugs. The
> WWW development community doesn't seem to participate in the
> www-security list as it should, perhaps because the list isn't focused
> on the security of *existing* WWW software.
>
> For the same reason, I would oppose simply merging all three lists.
>
> -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
> -- Systems Programmer and RiceInfo Administrator, Rice University
> -- 2002-A Guadalupe St. #285, Austin, TX 78705 / 512-323-0708
>
I fully agree with this opinion, I subscribed to that list to get
quick information about security problems of existing WWW software and how
to improve it, or how to secure a server and these sort of things, but
I am not interested at all by the particular case of exchanging money.
E-payment, although being a security issue byt its own, should be
discussed in other lists as it is a special case of security which does
not concern people who do not sell goods or information over the WWW, and
e-payment does not pertain only to WWW .
WWW has started as, and still is by a large extend, an academic or scientific
mean for exchanging information, and although there is a trend to
use it as a market place, there should still be places devoted to the only
problems linked to these exchanges of information and their particular
issues.
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