From Mailing Lists To RSS

By Daniel Miessler on February 22nd, 2007: Tagged as Community | Email | Lists | RSS | Security

I’m not sure how this is going to work out yet, but I’m making the switch away from mailing list for a couple of my key security sources — most importantly, Full Disclosure and Bugtraq.

A few I’ll still interact with through my mail client, i.e. those that I participate actively in more often, but for the majority of them I’m going to be moving to RSS. Here’s a short list of feeds you might want to look at:

And here’s a comprehensive list from seclist.org.

  • http://compulsive.org/ cji

    This has worked pretty well for me over the past few months. I had started just getting the digest version to help slow down the massive inbox traffic those lists generate, but found that was even more difficult to navigate.

    The good thing about using the RSS feeds, is you can easily get rid of or ignore the noise and just pick out the good signal (for the most part). The bad part obviously,depending on your client, is that you might only see the last 10-20 posts but have missed something important from earlier, depending on how often you’re checking the feeds.

    Anyway, good luck with it. I’ve found it’s infinitely more useful than having a second gmail account setup just for mailing lists (which I forget to check and suddenly have 3,000 new messages to sift through).

  • http://compulsive.org cji

    This has worked pretty well for me over the past few months. I had started just getting the digest version to help slow down the massive inbox traffic those lists generate, but found that was even more difficult to navigate.

    The good thing about using the RSS feeds, is you can easily get rid of or ignore the noise and just pick out the good signal (for the most part). The bad part obviously,depending on your client, is that you might only see the last 10-20 posts but have missed something important from earlier, depending on how often you’re checking the feeds.

    Anyway, good luck with it. I’ve found it’s infinitely more useful than having a second gmail account setup just for mailing lists (which I forget to check and suddenly have 3,000 new messages to sift through).

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Interesting, thanks for the input. Nice site, btw.

  • http://dmiessler.com Daniel Miessler

    Interesting, thanks for the input. Nice site, btw.

  • http://www.stevengharms.com/ Steven G. Harms

    This is a real challenge at my employer as well, well, say times 50K.

    When you have the enrenched costs of mail storange and the entrenched culture of mailing lists, you find that people are pulling a ton of chaff AND consuming tons of space. RSS and blogs ( back to RSS ) are mentioned as the solution to it, but I don’t think anyone has constructed a solid model for collaboration feeds ( except MS, whose sharepoint product seems solid, feature wise ).

    The Open Source offerings aren’t even in the park.

    Steven

  • http://www.stevengharms.com Steven G. Harms

    This is a real challenge at my employer as well, well, say times 50K.

    When you have the enrenched costs of mail storange and the entrenched culture of mailing lists, you find that people are pulling a ton of chaff AND consuming tons of space. RSS and blogs ( back to RSS ) are mentioned as the solution to it, but I don’t think anyone has constructed a solid model for collaboration feeds ( except MS, whose sharepoint product seems solid, feature wise ).

    The Open Source offerings aren’t even in the park.

    Steven


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