Quoting Stefan Gofferje <suse-security@gofferje.homelinux.org>:
On 3/5/2004 5:05 PM, Robert Schiele wrote:
Well, in fact the _most_ annoying thing are not the massmailings itself, but the repeated discussion that starts _everytime_ when _one_ such thing touches the list. Sometimes I feel like on Groundhog Day...
FULL ACK!!! And in addition to that, I would state that those discussion cause more than quadruple the traffic the worms do.
Perhaps that is because nothing is ever done. Virus/Spam gets post, people whine, nothing happens, people stop. Rinse/Repeat. As far as I am aware, this is a security list. Security of the list would, I believe, be covered as a valid discussion. I don't care much about the vagaries of SuSE's iptables wrapper, but it is discussed ceaselessly on the list. I recognize that as valid. Why is our own discussion any less valid? I am, at least, talking about something constructive. Whining about other people's posts is hypocritical at the very least. I rather like the idea of simply requiring a specific string somewhere in the message to prevent spam. Would it be such a burden to end a subject line with "#"? Does anyone know if there is a technical problem in checking for such a subject before sending out to the list?