Rob VanFleet wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:00:54AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:Has anyone here see the following, and if so, has anyone answered Wagner's propaganda?Um. It's not propaganda. It's basically trolling for page impressions, and you just played right into their hands. Articles like this are targeting to drum up readership. Write up a controversial article that really irks a lot of people and you can rest assured that those who vehemently disagree with you will become your best source of advertising. Think about it. You just spammed this guys article to the entirety of debian-user, one of the more populous mailing lists on the net. All you've really accomplished to to encourage this guy to write more articles just like that one. Rob
"...page impressions?" Is that a new marketing term? I've been involved in a socio-political struggle while studying and advising on convincing political speech for over ten years--and quite succesfully so. How long have you studied propaganda? A few hundred hits from one list won't make that much difference to an online news publication. The millions of readers of a publication like worldtribune.com will make a difference--a negative difference after reading Wagner's spew. Our response to such a slam as Wagner's in political activism would be to threaten the publication with boycott and to publish opposing viewpoints in a competing publication. It wouldn't be to flame the messenger and poke our heads back in the sand. I've run Debian Linux for eight years and subscribed to the list again (after several years off the list) last night. After my first post (heads'-up about Wagner's story slamming Linux security), I'm flamed with false accusations that I spammed the debian-user list with off-topic material. Is there another list for Debian public relations issues? We once discussed public relations, occasionally. Is this list coming to the youthful rudeness we once saw on the FreeBSD list? And BTW, what is "CC EAL4" security certification, and what does it cover? Does it cover the many virii that eclipse corporate MicroSnot networks daily, requiring images to be reinstalled at great expense? I don't see that happening to Linux networks, but then most corporates don't see Linux networks. They see what they have, and, of course, columns like Wagner's. I'll use and write about the OS that works the best and has the most reasonable user cooperation. And that's why I'm resubscribed for now. Art