From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 18:09:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D0316A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:09:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD17543D4C for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:09:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i62I7vlq016463; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:07:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <40E59559.8090907@cronyx.ru> References: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E86EBB@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> <40E59559.8090907@cronyx.ru> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:31:33 +0200 To: Roman Kurakin From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Will Saxon Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat removed, linux to follow X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:09:49 -0000 At 9:03 PM +0400 2004-07-02, Roman Kurakin wrote: >> Has there ever been any discussion about making the list subscribers-only? >> It's not ideal but it stops this kind of nonsense (or at least gives list >> owners a target for reprisal). > Do you think trolls do not know how to subscribe? If some troll is going to forge someone else's e-mail address, that would get them through the subscriber-only filter anyway. The ability to take any kind of corrective action in response is going to be minimal, especially if the owners of the sending system are not cooperative. > The only solution IMHO to sign messages. It's time to find out how to do this > automaticaly with Mozila :-) Yup. PGP sign everything, and make sure that your keys don't ever get stolen or compromised. That makes it much harder for someone to successfully impersonate you. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.