Re: [Full-disclosure] Announcement posts and the charter (was Re: INSECT Pro 2.5.1 released)

[Christopher Truncer <CTruncer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.pinkham@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>> 
> 
> 
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