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From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Mailing List Still out there?
Message-ID: <1096@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 21:18:19 GMT
References: <398@island.uu.net> <5093@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <5093@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
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=The question: why is the security mailing list dormant, and how long
=will it stay that way?
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=Answer: it is dormant because it grew so large that no site can be found
=where they are willing to host the mailing list -- sending out many
=hundreds of mail messages at once is quite a load on many mailers.

Why not break the list into regions and have a mail server in each region?
The main server would then only have to mail to an alias on each regional
server.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov