I agree with Steve. I joined this list for learning about the latest security vulnerabilities. It is a great method of staying current with everything going on in the IT Sec world. I think I can speak for some people saying we did not join to have a "free but donation required" tool promoted every 3 weeks.
On Apr 12, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Steven Pinkham <steve.pink...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree this is a discussion worth having. I think the policy should be > more objective to give us a clear policy to abide by and enforce. > > Suggestions for policy: > 1)No tool announcements. > Best rational I can think of for this one: Tool announcments should go > to the specific group they are for. Pentest, webappsec, etc are all > better places for announcements. > > 2)Only announcements for OSI approved projects. Webappsec has this > policy I think, and it rewards people who share the most openly. > > 3)Announcements for only no-cost projects. Similar to the above > > 4)Announcements for initial and major feature releases only, with a > limit of 1 announcement per x months(3,6,12- whatever we deem reasonable > as an upper bound. I think one of the lists has this policy, and it > seems the most reasonable one to me. > > Steve > Pete Smith wrote: >> John, >> >> The following line is within the list charter: Alterations will be made >> after consultation with list members and a consensus has been reached. >> >> I would like to suggest that advertising for products and tools (free or >> otherwise) be limited to just an initial announcement to tell people >> about the tool. >> Sending updates for every single minor update made is just useless spam >> for the majority of people seeing it, the people who are interested in a >> product beyond the initial announcement can and will keep upto date on >> changes themselves. >> >> http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >> >> Cheers, >> Pete >> > > > -- > | Steven Pinkham, Security Consultant | > | http://www.mavensecurity.com | > | GPG public key ID CD31CAFB | > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
