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MODERATOR'S NOTE: apologies for 1 piece of spam
From: Kelly Martin <kel () securityfocus com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:33:37 -0700
Dear list subscribers, I would like to apologize to all of you for approving a *single* piece of spam to the Security-Basics mailing list yesterday. While I did not receive any emails or complaints about it, the error came to my attention today. As a stated policy, we do not distribute viruses or spam through any one of our 31 mailing lists. The approval yesterday was due to human error, due to a post that was not filtered by my extensive spam filtering rules. While spam is merely an annoyance and is hardly malicious, it is still unacceptable in my own mind to approve any kind of spam to the list. I will also take this opportunity to mention a bit about the track record of the Security-Basics mailing list over the past couple of years. Since June 2003, when I joined Symantec's SecurityFocus and became moderator of this busy list, *not a single piece of spam* had been distributed to the list until yesterday. This is despite the fact that 95% of all the messages received in my moderator's queue are spam and even malicious viruses. I would estimate that I've received tens of thousands of spam emails into my moderator's queue in the last two years. In short, the list is hit very hard every single day by dozens of miscreants, spammers, script kiddies and automated virus infection attempts. It is an enormous human effort to moderate all of these to ensure that none of these make it through to our list subscribers -- and during my tenture, not a single virus has ever been distributed through the list. I think these facts speak for themselves. Thanks for your time and attention -- and most of all, thanks to everyone here who contributes their knowledge by posting to this list. It's contributors like you that make this list such a valuable resource for us all. Best regards, Kelly Martin Moderator, Security-Basics
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