Aleph1 Passes The Bugtraq Baton

Rogue_F writes: "The long running security mailing list Bugtraq is getting a new moderator. Elias Levy (the real name of the familiar Aleph1) has decided to move on to other things. For nearly six years he has been moderating bugtraq with a high degree of success. No one doubts the usefulness of bugtraq, but many people probably dont appreciate what a 'clean' list it is. No spam, no flames, no relgious security wars, instead you get good wholesome security information. Aleph1 details in this message that he is moving on to other security projects and that David Ahmad is taking over moderation duties. Bugtraq continues to churn out quality security information on a daily basis, and it looks like it will continue to do so for quite some time to come." List moderators and maintainers seem universally denied their due credit -- people like Zack Brown (of Kernel Traffic fame) end up getting noticed only when --infrequently -- they go on vacation.

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Kernel mailing list summaries

[kingdon]

While Kernel Traffic is very good for what it is (a summary of more or less everything on the kernel mailing list in a given week), for my purposes the LWN kernel page is even better. They summarize a few issues in enough detail to actually understand what is going on, and then give some links to other stuff that happened. Anyway, with respect to the LWN kernel page, or Kernel Traffic, or other such efforts: Would greater public recognition make it easier to keep resources like this going? Would it help if there were a better way of dividing it up into multiple volunteers (not that I can think of how to do it as easily as for code or the Open Directory Project)? Activities like these are indeed a pretty useful part of open source development/use.

Re:Hmm, does he have a nick name yet?

[RedGuard]

aleph omega surely