RE: WebAppSec appends advertisements to mailing list messages?!

["Clement Dupuis" <cdupuis () cccure org>]

It is obvious that NOTHING is free in this world,

People join mailing lists to get free information and to have a medium to
share and access a pool of talent.  Someone has to pay for the rendering of
the service somehow.

SecurityFocus is sustained through advertising, the day they stop including
any form or adverts will mean that you have to pay to access the
information.  I am sure Symantec will not allow them to run in the red, as
long as they can generate enough revenues they will be allowed to exist.

I agree that it should clearly marked to ensure it is not interpreted as a
signature block from the author of the message but really as an
advertisement.

Clement


-----Original Message-----
From: Ory Segal [mailto:osegal () watchfire com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:38 AM
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
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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.

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