Gervase Markham wrote: > As some of you may be aware, we are about to move to a new newsgroup > hierarchy for mozilla.org. > http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2005/08/new_newsgroups_1.html > http://www.mozilla.org/community/newsgroups.txt > > Currently, n.p.m.crypto.checkins still exists in the new hierarchy, as > mozilla.dev.tech.crypto.checkins, because in the past I have been told > that it is required by US Export Regulations to have some sort of record > of crypto code development. However, the same information is available > from, and much more accessible in, Bonsai (http://bonsai.mozilla.org). > > So, does anyone know the history behind the existence of the group, and > whether we still need it given that we have Bonsai?
That unmoderated newsgroup is fed by a one-way mail-to-news relay, whose source is the moderated [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. That mailing list is fed by a script that runs for each cvs checkin to mozilla/security. Unlike the newsgroup, the mailing list is spam free. The list is more important to preserve than the newsgroup, since the list is the source that feeds the newsgroup. There are 21 subscribers to the mailing list. I will not name them, but will note that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are not among them. It seems unlikely to me that any government agency employees have time to spend lurking in the npm.crypto.checkins newsgroup, but it seems even less likely that they'd openly subscribe to the mailing list. In any case, the mailing list and newsgroup are two good ways for NSS developers and developers of NSS-based applications to stay on top of what's happening to NSS on the trunk and all branches. I see no reason to discontinue either one. -- Nelson B moderator, n.p.m.crypto.checkins _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
