"In the previous message, Gene Spafford said..." > > Okay, here's the chance for all those of you complaining about > response teams. You can attend the next FIRST Workshop and talk to > some (most) of the people directly. You can also find out first-hand about > how these groups *really* work, and how you can form one of your own > for your organization. Perhaps you or someone else can summarize or provide information to us who for reasons of time and/or money cannot go to Boston to attend this workshop. If nothing else, perhaps post the info on the COAST or bugtraq lists, or a pointer to an ftp subdir where people can get material at their earliest convenience? That is the biggest impedement to progress I am aware of - lack of INFORMATION. Causes are varied and numerous, but the effect is the same. > The announcement can be found at gopher://gopher.first.org or > http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov You can also get a copy by sending e-mail > to workshop-info@first.org > > Questions about the workshop can be addressed to first-sec@first.org > > --spaf [ ... announcement deleted ... ] -- pat@rwing [If all fails, try: rwing!pat@ole.cdac.com] Pat Myrto - Seattle WA "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers, nationally syndicated advice columnist and Director at Handgun Control Inc.