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Message-ID: <44204C87.1050008@brvenik.com>
Date: Tue Mar 21 18:57:20 2006
From: security at brvenik.com (Jason)
Subject: Noise on the list

Frederic,

Your reaction is the intent of the spam and porn and trolling. It is in
an attempt to drive off quality discussion and people. If you cannot
keep up with it we all understand.

I personally consider this list great training for handling the idiots
that exist in every day life. There is a netdev in every crowd.

Frederic Pasteleurs wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I subscribed to this mailing list in 2004 just to keep me informed about
> some useful tips and the latest issues/problems in the software packages
> i'm using for my everyday computing habits.
> 
> I had a hard time to keep up with the flow of mails in the beginning,
> but it was still manageable.
> The n3td3v trolling case several months ago was annoying, but still okay.
> Then came the fake advisories spamming, i was a bit pissed by the
> ammount of mails to delete, but didn't care much more than that.
> Then the  animal porn drawings spamming: this time, i was seriously
> considering leaving the list and i felt sorry for the huge waste of
> valuable bandwidth and disk space.
> 
> Now, i'm afraid to read any mail with the [Full-disclosure] header,
> because nowadays you have to dig through childish and
> mine-is-bigger-than-yours messages to actually find some interesting and
> valuable information.
> 
> I know that's the price to pay for an unmoderated list, but the noise
> level reached a level i could not tolerate and i will leave this list by
> the end of the week.
> 
> It seems that unmoderated list works only for mature people and those
> that keep silent when they have nothing to say...
> 
> Come on people, how old are you ??
> 
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