Greg Makuch wrote: > The fact the move is occurring is posted to tucows web site > its location is below: > > https://rrc.tucows.com/releasenotes/email/emaildefense06 > > This move has never been announced publicly but was rather > "hidden" and what I mean by hidden is... never publicly discussed > or promoted but announced on tucows web site and I know of no > other place.
=== First, the issue I can speak to: While I haven't participated in the process of the change in facilities, I'm entrenched enough in the culture here at Tucows to be able to say that any "hiding" is unintentional. The announcement was made in the usual place where all reseller-facing announcements are made: the Resellers Resource Center. Is there a way you'd prefer to see release notes, such as receiving them via email? === And now, the issue I can't: I can't speak for the Email Defense folks, but perhaps the ramifications of the current political situation in the U.S. might not have been a major factor (or even a factor at all) in the decision. I'm certainly not used to thinking of the U.S. as a surveillance state, and the changes to the way the U.S. Government has been acting with regards to privacy are recent ones. I'll admit I haven't given the issue much thought; come to think of it, any applications and data that I own that aren't on my personal computers all live on servers based in the U.S.. It's certainly food for thought. === Encrypted email brings up some interesting issues, none of which I have the answers for, but might be worth discussing: - What does it do to spam filtering? (This assumes that a spammer has figured a way to get your public key. Given that they're meant to be freely handed out, it's likely that they'll be collected by spammers.) If the content of email is encrypted, does that mean that external anti-spam filtering will have only the headers and subject line to go on for criteria? - Is it easy enough for the "average user" to use? By "easy", I don't just mean getting the user to get the concepts of public and private keys and key generation, but also the user interface -- is it unobtrusive enough so that users won't consider it too much of an annoyance to use? Your thoughts, please... -- Joey -- Joey deVilla - Tucows, Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC/DC (Technical Community Development Coordinator) "Nerdy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" http://farm.tucows.com + http://developer.tucows.com _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
