On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Robert Kim Wireless Internet Advisor wrote:
> >
> > Nick, hi... why would you want to filter out the digests? will this
> > eliminate digests from my subscriptioin?
>
> It would have nothing to do with *sending* the digests, and everything
> to do with stopping tards that hit reply to a 70kb digest containing 20
> messages, add a single word reply without trimming anything, and spew it
> all back to the list. It also breaks threading when someone replies to
> a digest using a mail client that's too dumb to reply to individual
> mails in a digest. Don't "security professionals" know how to use email
> for god's sake?
What makes you think at this day in age, "security professionals" are no
more pigeon holed in skills then other IT professionals? limited tools in
daily use tend to depricate those with skills over a braoder spectrum at
an earlier point of time, let alone that CISSP is the only real
qualification for the claim.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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