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Joe Budzyn takes care of security.msu.edu and its pointers to mailing
lists.  He will be calling you later.

NAG has evolved over the years.  It started as the Novell
Administrator Group, and is now either the Network Administrator Group
or maybe it's just NAG.   Any topic related to network or system
administration is fair game, including security topics.  NAG also
meets face to face monthly.  Review the NAG archives to get a sense of
what's discussed here.

/rich

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:41:31 -0400, David McFarlane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> First, my apologies to all.  In my frantic desparation to get some
> information on computer security, I went to the security.msu.edu page,
> clicked on Mailing Lists, and saw the Security discussion paragraph as follows:
>
> "Security discussion
>
> The MSU-security mailing list is for general security and virus
> discussions. This list is not moderated, and is meant to foster
> communication throughout the university. Those wishing to interactively
> discuss security issues, or ask for advice on virus and security issues are
> encouraged to
> <http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=msu-security&A=1>subscribe. List
> archives may be found <http://list.msu.edu/archives/msu-security.html>here."
>
> I clicked on the final "here" and saw that the archive ended in April
> 2003.  Still desparate, I went to subscribe anyway; however, I slipped and
> clicked on "Sign up <http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=msunag&A=1>here"
> under the Administrator discussion paragraph!  That sent me here to MSUNAG,
> which is indeed very much alive, but does not focus on security.  I did not
> notice my error until I was on the phone with the computer lab, describing
> to them how the security discussion subscription link subscribed me to the
> wrong list, and then noticed that the msu-security listserv link was still
> "blue" while the MSUNAG link was now "purple".  Sheesh!  Mea culpa.
>
> So now I've tried to subscribe to the msu-security list, but that one
> indeed seems to be dead.  That's too bad, because I really need to talk
> about security, and the resources on the web sites are far too weak for my
> needs.  And if msu-security is dead, someone needs to notify the webmaster
> to revise the page so as to not mislead idiots like me.  I don't know how
> to do that, so I've sent this message to you all.  My work is done.
>
> -- David McFarlane  [log in to unmask]
>