On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Keith T. Morgan wrote: > > > No, I was dead serious. People who use this list to attack other > > people under the veil of anonymity with the *sole* purpose of > > devaluing their product or service will get axed. I see no place for > > the here and it violates the spirit of this entire site and its lists. > > Having said that Ive never actually axed anyone from all of our lists > > . > > That's good. However, I think you have a real challenge in front of you > attempting to determine motives. Any vulnerability announcement would > seem to have a "devaluing" effect on a product or service. I also think > that unsubscribing a list member would have little effect. > Resubscribing under another email address takes all of ten minutes.
Vulnerabilities live on Bugtraq or other such like lists and are in no way governed by this policy. > > I also feel that some level of anonymity should be in place to protect > posters from vendors. I'm not saying that folks should be able to post > libelous statements, but is that the moderator's place to decide? > What's libelous, what's true, what's untrue, what's real and unreal? No, it's not. It is my place though to consider both parties and doing my best to keep it honest. I think accountability goes a long way for this. Again this is about product reviews not vuln disclosure. > > Historically the list has done a pretty good job of policing itself in > these types of situations. Bogus postings are quickly identified as > such, bad information is quickly debunked in replies. Yes it does but I've also typically dropped most product queries because of the issues I've already mentioned. Alfred Huger Symantec Corp. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Lightning Console aggregates IDS events, correlates them with vulnerability info, reduces false positives with the click of a button, anddistributes this information to hundreds of users. Visit Tenable Network Security at http://www.tenablesecurity.com to learn more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
