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RE: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?!
From: "Jason Gregson" <Jason.Gregson () easyi com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:17:24 -0000
Hello all, Although the line reads "WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW THIS LINE IS COMPLETE AND..." I don't feel that it was directed at Watchfire and/or your products. I perceived the line as "What's this advert? I have no control over it's content", and loosing control is a very scary thing. You may have been sold the ad but did we agree to get the ad. Advertising like is this is clearly very rude, if not wrong. The point is that it was underhand. If we had know all about this when we subscribed, some of us may have chosen to make our posts elsewhere. How long will it be until applications are attached and you will see a message like - "By reading this message you agree to install application xyz.exe" or worse "Get you meds here http://sometrash.xom", "Increase you girth" etc, etc We ("some of the 7.5 million unique users" from http://www.securityfocus.com/advertise) should have least have been 1. Informed before the ads were added 2. Given the option the ability to opt out At the moment the only ability I have, with regards to the ad's is to stop the subscription. As you have suggested, I have included Security focus in the recipients of this post. Disappointed (but I suppose it was inevitable) Jason -----Original Message----- From: Ory Segal [mailto:osegal () watchfire com] Sent: 10 January 2006 10:38 To: Peter Conrad; webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: RE: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Peter, If you disagree with SecurityFocus' advertising methods, you should direct your opinion directly to them. There's no reason to trash the vendors or to use foul language. The vendors (and in this case, my company) bought ad space, which was offered by SF. -Ory -----Original Message----- From: Peter Conrad [mailto:conrad () tivano de] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:41 To: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: Re: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Hi, Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 20:08 schrieb Amit Klein (AKsecurity):
I think that it should be made more clear that this trailing piece is an ad that was automatically added. Something like "-----
Advertisement -----". I'll second that. IMO it is a serious breach of netiquette to modify postings in such a way without even notifying subscribers of the fact. (In some jurisdictions such modifications may even be illegal.) I don't want my name associated with any products that are advertised in this forum, so please make it absolutely clear that the ad wasn't included by me. Bye, Peter -- Peter Conrad Tel: +49 6102 / 80 99 072 [ t]ivano Software GmbH Fax: +49 6102 / 80 99 071 Bahnhofstr. 18 http://www.tivano.de/ 63263 Neu-Isenburg Germany WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW THIS LINE IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Watchfire's AppScan is the industry's first and leading web application security testing suite, and the only solution to provide comprehensive remediation tasks at every level of the application. See for yourself. Download AppScan 6.0 today. https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/appscansix.aspx?id=701300000003Ssh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Watchfire's AppScan is the industry's first and leading web application security testing suite, and the only solution to provide comprehensive remediation tasks at every level of the application. See for yourself. Download AppScan 6.0 today. https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/appscansix.aspx?id=701300000003Ssh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- ________________________________________________________________________ ______ This email was scanned for all viruses by our Security Systems on entering the Easy i network. For more information on this scanning, please contact Easy i. ________________________________________________________________________ ______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watchfire's AppScan is the industry's first and leading web application security testing suite, and the only solution to provide comprehensive remediation tasks at every level of the application. See for yourself. Download AppScan 6.0 today. https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/appscansix.aspx?id=701300000003Ssh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Amit Klein (AKsecurity) (Jan 06)
- Re: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Peter Conrad (Jan 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Ory Segal (Jan 10)
- Re: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Peter Conrad (Jan 10)
- Administrivia: Adverts Andrew van der Stock (Jan 10)
- RE: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Clement Dupuis (Jan 10)
- Re: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Peter Conrad (Jan 10)
- RE: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?! Jason Gregson (Jan 10)