Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:31:33 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> Cc: Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat removed, linux to follow Message-ID: <p06002035bd0b4bebb128@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <40E59559.8090907@cronyx.ru> References: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E86EBB@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> <40E59559.8090907@cronyx.ru>
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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, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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