From: Paul J. Morris (molemorris.net)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 18:19:23 CDT

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   Let me offer an argument for not rejecting the "help, what do I do"
messages out of hand. One of the useful educational aspects of this
list for me has been watching the posted responses to such messages.
   You are quite right that the responses that come back from posters to
questions from the list are often not very informative. However, the
questions that members of the list ask in and of themselves can be quite
valuble. Different questions about a vauge problem can communicate a lot
about how people who work on incident response approach problems and
some of the differences in opinion between members of the community.
   Reducing the number of information poor postings on the list might
well be a very good thing, but consider that there might be some value
to such postings.

Merry Snailing,
-Paul
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