Sebastian Rose writes:
> OK - there _must_ be a missunderstanding...
Quite probably. But I don't wish to make further noise about a topic
most here likely don't care much about, so I will try to make this my
last message in this thread unless new information comes to light.
> We all post via "r
Ben Finney writes:
> Sebastian Rose writes:
>
>> Ben Finney writes:
>> > Since it's an infrequently-to-never accessed service, it's an
>> > unreasonable burden to expect the user to maintain unique
>> > passphrases for every such service. If for this list, why not for
>> > every such list?
>>
>
> The sensible policy, therefore, is to cull the proliferation of such
> passphrase-requiring infrequently-to-never-accessed accounts. Which, in
> turn, means saying a polite “no thank you” to most requests to set up
> new accounts.
OK - there _must_ be a missunderstanding...
The sensible thin
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:02:50 +1000
Ben Finney wrote:
> [...]
> For an infrequently-to-never used passphrase, one of two things is the
> case: either it's unique, or it is identical to the passphrase that
> accesses some other set of services for the user.
>
> Since it's an infrequently-to-never
Ben Finney wrote:
> Tyler Smith writes:
>
> > Ben Finney writes:
> >
> > > A large part of my reason for reading via Gmane is to avoid yet
> > > another set of authentication credentials. Especially one that I
> > > never use; that's a security nightmare waiting to happen. So I'm not
> > > int
Ben Finney wrote:
>> > A large part of my reason for reading via Gmane is to avoid yet
>> > another set of authentication credentials. Especially one that I
>> > never use; that's a security nightmare waiting to happen. So I'm not
>> > interested in increasing my security exposure by making a Mai
Ben Finney writes:
> Tyler Smith writes:
>
>> Ben Finney writes:
>>
>> > A large part of my reason for reading via Gmane is to avoid yet
>> > another set of authentication credentials. Especially one that I
>> > never use; that's a security nightmare waiting to happen. So I'm not
>> > intereste
Sebastian Rose writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
> > Since it's an infrequently-to-never accessed service, it's an
> > unreasonable burden to expect the user to maintain unique
> > passphrases for every such service. If for this list, why not for
> > every such list?
>
> It's easy to maintain unique
Ben Finney writes:
> Since it's an infrequently-to-never accessed service, it's an
> unreasonable burden to expect the user to maintain unique passphrases
> for every such service. If for this list, why not for every such list?
It's easy to maintain unique passphrases, and to create them. There'
Tyler Smith writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > A large part of my reason for reading via Gmane is to avoid yet
> > another set of authentication credentials. Especially one that I
> > never use; that's a security nightmare waiting to happen. So I'm not
> > interested in increasing my security ex
Ben Finney writes:
> Carsten Dominik writes:
>
>> If you are reading emacs-orgmode.org through gmane, please read this
>> new FAQ to help take load off the maintainers.
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#ml-subscription-and-gmane
>
> A large part of my reason for reading via Gmane is to a
Carsten Dominik writes:
> If you are reading emacs-orgmode.org through gmane, please read this
> new FAQ to help take load off the maintainers.
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#ml-subscription-and-gmane
A large part of my reason for reading via Gmane is to avoid yet another
set of authent
Thanks Carsten for this good advice!
I already use the setup with gmane and a mail list subscription without
mail delivery and it works great.
A tip:
To easily(?) subscribe to the list and set the option to note receive
mail.
1. Send a subscription request to the lists request-address.
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