IDS: 4 line ads on posts

[Alfred Huger <ah () securityfocus com>]

Heya all,

Forgive me if you've already read this post as I am cross posting it to
several of the lists here at SecurityFocus. I am soliciting data and
regrettably not all of our users are on the same lists so I need to send
the same questions out several times. Over the last year or so there has
been a 4 line advert attached to the end of each outgoing Pen-Test and
Incidents mailing list messages. I am considering changing these ads so
that SecurityFocus is not the only advertiser on them while keeping the 4
line limit and as an appended item only. My goal here is to make this list
and the website which hosts it a self sufficient community, something it
requires in order to guarantee its longevity. When I changed the initial
outgoing messages a year ago no one complained. However Id like to touch
base here again before I should choose to move ahead. Like I said earlier
this is about sustainable community meaning it needs to pay for itself or
at least contribute something back. Your thoughts on this are appreciated.

-al

P.S. This will not be an issue for all mailing lists here and in
particular NOT for Bugtraq.



Alfred Huger
Symantec Corp.