Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> I think sometimes people have a simple question that they want
>> answered. Lets imagine the case of someone who's struggling configuring
>> a PKCS#11 module as a specific example. They're probably not prepared
>> to be fully involved in all the various security discussions, but they
>> might like to ask a simple question that can be answered by the folks on
>> the security-discuss@ list. But, if that mail list just outright
>> rejects their e-mail, the user is faced with two (maybe three) options:
>>
>> 1) subscribe to the list
>> 2) give up on the list and find other resources to answer the question
>> (and often, if that doesn't work, just give up on actually solving it --
>> in some cases I suspect this turns people off to OpenSolaris altogether)
>> 3) if they know someone *specifically*, they can send a "targetted"
>> e-mail to a list member to ask them or ask them to repost for them
>>
>
> 4) Use the web forums, which bypass the mailman filters, and are a more
> familiar interface for many people who want to ask one question, not
> join an ongoing community/discussion list.
>
>
Yes, I suppose that would work. Of course, the spammers could use the
web fora as well...
-- Garrett
