On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Allan Irving wrote:
It was just a suggestion - no need for the aggressive reaction. Email is inherently insecure so I don?t see how Slack?s security comes into it. Slack offers features email never will.
You're getting the side-discussion about Slack and security confused with the question of whether Slack is a good replacement for a mailing list.
Additionally, as opposed to filter rules - you can open Slack when you can be bothered to respond to messages. Without filters you have an inbox full of LOPSA discuss emails.
Hm... so -- I open my mailbox, and find that I have ~21 messages. I look at #lopsa, and find that there's ~64 messages. The 21 email messages have a clear subject that makes it quick/easy to ignore if I'm not interested. The chat, not so much.
It was just a suggestion but given the response for outdated technology which is very insecure - it would seem that LOPSA really isn?t up to date. Are you really sending sensitive data over a mailing list? Then who?s to blame for it as a system administrator? A discussion list has and never should divulge confidential information seeing as this one is indexed by Google.
You're missing the point...
You can stay in the dark ages but some of us are thinking ahead. Given the responses, it is clear to me that moving on into the modern century is the way forward.
... and hopefully you'll still be thinking ahead when it turns out that the 'free' service you've been using suddenly changes its mind about providing a free service, or suddenly goes out of business, or turns out to have been feeding all of your data into a marketing DB to be resold ... There's modern and modern ;> Me, I still walk places, rather than using a Segway or a robot. cheers! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
