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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Mailing List Still out there?
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Date: 12 Oct 88 16:39:15 GMT
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The question: why is the security mailing list dormant, and how long
will it stay that way?

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.

The obvious question is, why not turn it into a newsgroup?  Because the
moderator doesn't want to broadcast the contents, including hole
information.  The list was assembled with some small care that only
sysadmins at well-known sites would be included in the list.

If anyone is willing to host the mailing list at their site, please
send mail to Andrew Burt -- he'd love to hear from you.

-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf