Re: NIMDA Horror

[Brian Longwe <blongwe at psg.com>]

Well, once the list is in place we can work on getting sysadmins onto it. Here I refer not only to ISP techs but also to corporate IT Managers and sys admins who would otherwise not be on lists like AFNOG.

This will help us have a centralised way of getting out alerts.

Admittedly gleaning the "useful" stuff from the large, busy lists in North America is a lot of work. I don't think that we're there yet. At some point we may need to have people on those lists who would forward the relevant posts but I don't know of anyone on this side who has the time for that.

Actually, you could probably coordinate with Geert-Jan to get the list under the afnog.org domain.

Once the list is up we could announce it on other, Afro-centric mailing lists and let people jump on.

Something else that I think would be useful is if the various African websites (AFNOG, AFRINIC, EAIA, etc.... carried links to "Other African Networking Resources") This would help casual browsers "stumble" across what could prove to be very useful information....a kind of 'cross-selling' of the various resources that exist out there.

Brian

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:02:27 +0300 (EAT)
Sematimba Noah K <ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug> wrote:

> 
> 
> > Lucy,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the support. Sematimba, you're the list guru...do you mind setting this up? Then we can start working on getting admins on to the list for maximum impact.
> 
> Setting the list up and archiving it is not a problem as this is automated
> however populating it would be a problem. The relevant lists on which
> these warnings come like nanog,bugtraq,freebsd-security etc are very high
> volume. Passing on these messages would have to be a joint effort as I
> doubt anyone can do it alone. However we can initially use afnog to pass
> on these as long as we avoid duplicate posts, try to keep from posting
> stuff like "me too, I have the same problem ... etc" and concetrate on
> warnings and working solutions.
> 
> 
> Noah.
> 
> 
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