Re: Product review postings - Suggested Solution

From: Alfred Huger <ah(at)securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 18:39:15 EDT

Mark & all,

I think the points you make below are right on the mark (pardon the pun). It's been very useful for me to be able to run through this list's opinions to help clear my own position. Ultimately I do think this is an issue, that of accountability versus unfettered ability to voice an opinion regardless of your agenda. It's a very complicated problem and not one that I am not capable of solving at least not with this list.

If a poster is unknown to the list or the list members it's important to remember this when forming your opinion of their statements. I do actually assume that the readers here are capable of doing this but this medium becomes dulling after a while and people do (like it or not) often pick up opinions on lists without seriously considering the source. Being at the center of a large series of mailing lists myself and the other staff here see it all the time. None of this of course sees me any closer to resolving this issue. What I do not want to do is limit useful free discussion. I also however do not want to provide a forum for people to eviscerate competitors with no accountability to their motives.

When I lay everything out on the table the choices are not ideal. But I think we may have been provided a reasonable if not ideal alternative. When product reviews are sent to the list regardless of the source I can tag them with the caveats Mark brings up in his post. They are quoted below. Thoughts anyone? Ill be happy to discuss both to the list and direct to me.

-Al

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Received on Tue Jul 8 19:38:12 2003