Re: Time for moderation?
Derik Jarne x353-2490 (Derik.Jarne@osi.com)
Mon, 10 Oct 94 09:49:56 PDT
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> Douglas Goodall writes:
> > I am very unhappy :-( to be receiving anything that looks like
> > credit card numbers, names, and expiration dates.
> >
> > If this is going to happen, I vote that bugtraq becomes a
> > moderated list.
>
> I would rather know that people are actively retreiving credit card
> data. As much as I've read about people snooping for it, I hadn't
> actually seen it until now. It wasn't related to bugtraq but I thought
> it was informative. What fool would collect credit card data only to
> share it with a mailing list that clearly includes some above-board
> people who would report the cards as stolen? I'd like to think that
> the real author (apparently not the sender) was just making a point.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So does a terrorist!!
>
> Moderation won't prevent credit card numbers from being gathered. If
> they really wanted to publish the data with a few like-minded
> individuals they probably should have posted it to alt.2600 or
> something. (No offense to all the above-board people there.)
>
> I would not vote for moderation unless the traffic level was out of
> control, or the content became permanently off-topic. Speaking of
> which, I'm sorry for using everyone's bandwidth this way ...
> --
> kevin.ruddy@powerdog.com
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