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Bugtraq Relocating

Posted by justin++ on from the no-more-geek-girl dept.

CrackBot writes "The bugtraq security mailing list, along with the geek-girl archives of it, have moved to securityfocus.com . There's also a vulnerabilities database, products and services listings, and other mailing lists and forums. Seems to be a good resource for the security-minded... "

19 comments

  1. Re:Updating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No. The FAQ is correct. Netspace is the place is the place to subscribed to until July 5th.

  2. Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I never understood the purpose of the geek-girl
    archives of the bugtraq list. Archives of bugtraq
    were already available on the server bugtraq (was)
    hosted on, netspace.org! LISTSERV has built in
    web archiving features - to access the bugtraq
    archives, you could go to http://www.netspace.org/lsv-archive/bugtraq.html

    1. Re:Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The geek-girl archives went back longer than the Netspace archives.

    2. Re:Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Both the Geek-girl and netspace archives are moving over to www.securityfocus.com next week. Plus the geek-girl archives went back about 2 more years than netspace.

    3. Re:Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, for one thing the Geek-girl.com archives were readable. They were nicely laid out, used "next/previous" links on each message, was not buried three deep in a frameset, and didn't use such abominations as:
      "BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF TEXT=#000000 LINK=#222255 ALINK=#222255 VLINK=#222255" (Yeah, I really didn't want to know which messages I had already read. That kind of stuff is for sissies.)

      I'm going to miss the geek-girl archive. Bugtraq on securityfocus.com is one of the ugliest mailing list archives I've seen in a long time.

      But I'm just whining. Pay no attention to me.

      -D
      dcross@cryogen.com

    4. Re:Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The archives at netspace use the following body tag:

      Each message has a link to see the next or previous message in the thread, the next/previous by the same author, or go to the next thread.

      ... I dunno what netspace you've been look at! :)

    5. Re:Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The archives at netspace use the following body tag:
      body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000"

      Each message has a link to see the next or previous message in the thread, the next/previous by the same author, or go to the next thread.

      ... I dunno what netspace you've been look at! :)

    6. Re:Archives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      i think he was talking about securityfocus.com
      not netspace.

    7. Re:Archives? by tqbf · · Score: 1


      The Geek-Girl archives were started first.
      Geek-Girl was hosting Bugtraq (even before
      it was Geek-Girl, back when it was a machine
      at NWU) since the before Elias (Aleph)
      took over the list.

      Note that both "Geek-Girl" (Jennifer Myers)
      and "Aleph One" (Elias Levy) have prominent
      roles at SecurityFocus.

      Anything good I say about SecurityFocus will
      be biased by the fact that it is run by friends
      of mine.

  3. New archive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Boy, this sucks. I used to access the geek-girl archives with lynx. Try doing that with this fancy bunch of graphical-layout-navigational-crap.

    Oh, well.. over to netspace.org, I guess.

    1. Re:New archive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The site archives will be lynxable in the near future (hopefully Monday).

    2. Re:New archive by tqbf · · Score: 1


      Write them and complain. Elias and Jennifer
      have been maintaining Bugtraq and the archives
      for years, for no compensation, out of the
      kindness of their hearts. A nice way to return
      the favor would be to give them constructive
      feedback.

      The web guy at SecurityFocus is Dave Ahmed,
      .

  4. Re:Showing my ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The BUGTRAQ archives have always been available from LISTSERV (just email it some commands and it will send them your way). I hear this is not going to change. So anyone can set up their own archive.

  5. Showing my ignorance by unitron · · Score: 1

    If they move this thing and all the archives of it to the same place isn't that sort of putting all your eggs in one basket? Is all that stuff going to be on the same machine?

    --

    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.

  6. Bye Bugtraq by bperkins · · Score: 1

    Now I guess we'll have to find something to do withour extra listserv capacity. Our zmail server had done as much as 1.2 million deliveries in day on a P2 running linux.

  7. Pre-emptive slashdotting by rde · · Score: 1

    Connection reset by peer, and not even a comment posted yet. Gotta be a record.

  8. Slashdotted already? by Raphael · · Score: 1

    Well, it did not take long... I was browsing the site and suddenly I got several "connection reset by peer" in various frames. Did their Roxen server crash? Or maybe they do not have enough bandwidth to serve all curious /.'ers?

    But still, securityfocus.com seems to be a very interesting site. From what I was able to see, they provide lots of useful infos and links to many useful tools.

    --
    -Raphaël
    1. Re:Slashdotted already? by schon · · Score: 1

      I doubt it crashed..(roxen has an automatic restart function that
      would restart the server in most cases anyway,)

      More than likely Aleph has the # of accepts set too low, and hasn't
      enabled http keep-alives.... (it's a pretty "busy" site - lots of
      connections requred for each page..)


  9. Updating by glyneth · · Score: 1

    They need to update the FAQ, it still lists subscribing via netspace.org.