From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 19:04:42 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 8756516A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:04:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7595143D2D for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:04:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:49:26 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 8C3CC5D08; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:49:25 -0700 (PDT) To: Brad Knowles In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:31:33 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1594648448P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:49:25 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20040702184925.8C3CC5D08@ptavv.es.net> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Will Saxon cc: Roman Kurakin 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 19:04:42 -0000 --==_Exmh_-1594648448P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:31:33 +0200 > From: Brad Knowles > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > 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. The hitch (for those using Mozilla) is that it supports s/mime, not PGP. I believe that there is a plugin out there somewhere to add PGP capability, but I have never tried it as I don't use Mozilla to send mail. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 --==_Exmh_-1594648448P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFA5a40kn3rs5h7N1ERAiJwAKCByiTO9Gr1fqb1xbQRoMYxtDHd7gCfUa1+ JbEpKXAlm8XQJFPqM6rHC8s= =yfXp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1594648448P--