Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!bch
From: bch@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Mailing List Still out there?
Message-ID: <5588@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 88 14:15:41 GMT
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Reply-To: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Given the discussion in this newsgroup about discussing security issues
publicly vs. privately is the case against a newsgroup instead of a
mailing list really compelling?  I don't think so.  I'd argue for a
newsgroup, possibly moderated to filter out misdirection.  (The
moderator of such a group would have to be more knowledgeable than most
about security.)

Or, if a mailing list is perceived to be better, couldn't it be made
manageable by regionalizing it?  Ecsvax is a mail feed to a small
number of the sites whose sysadmins were on the old security mailing
list.  I'd be happy to set up a mail alias to feed sites in my area
which means that only one copy of the digest needs to be sent out
from the distribution point for that set of addresses.

I was sorry to see the list die and hope it can be brought back in some
incarnation.

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Byron C. Howes			    Computer Systems Manager
bch@uncecs.edu			UNC Educational Computing Service