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

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:23:26 -0400
From: Steven Pinkham <steve.pinkham@...il.com>
To: Pete Smith <seclists@...apitate.us>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Announcement posts and the charter (was Re:
 INSECT Pro 2.5.1 released)

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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