Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-12 Thread Raphaël Berbain
Sorry for the late answer, hollidays kicking in. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) writes: > >> Second, ISTR that PGP/MIME is recommended over inline PGP. > > Unfortunately, Outlook Express doesn't handle MIME properly, so > PGP/MIME is out No matter

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday September 8 at 09:23am Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) writes: > > The reason is that mail systems can handle reliably & automatically > > PGP/MIME signatures (handling being verify, strip, whatever). OTOH, > > they cannot with inline PG

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) writes: > Paul: You might want to investigate that. There are two issues that > I can see: First, this mml tag shouldn't end up in the final message, > should it ? No, it shouldn't.

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Stivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 04 2004 at 05:54:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > > Just out of curiosity what is the purpose of the line above? I have seen > i

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas Stivers
On Wed, Sep 08 2004 at 02:42:24PM +0200, Raphaël Berbain wrote: > It's an mml (MIME Meta Language) tag. Paul uses Gnus, which in turn > uses Emacs' Message mode to compose messages. mml is a tagging > language mecanism used by Emacs' message mode to convey > meta-information internally to the MUA

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Raphaël Berbain
Thomas Stivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 04 2004 at 05:54:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > > Just out of curiosity what is the purpose of the line above? I have seen > it only on Paul's messages and it seems unnecessary. It's an mml (MIME Meta La

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas Stivers
On Sat, Sep 04 2004 at 05:54:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> Just out of curiosity what is the purpose of the line above? I have seen it only on Paul's messages and it seems unnecessary. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. There

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 05 September 2004 01:52, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'll just hand the cluebat off to Karsten for this one, since he's > answered it quite nicely already from the last time some pinhead > got upset at established standards. > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html Interes

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:49:12 -0500, Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do we need SPF or Madrid? For seamlessness? Heck with that. > PGP/GPG would help to actually fix a problem rather than patch one. On the other hand, signing messages with GPG only deals with one of the problems with

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 04 September 2004 09:02, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > But they don't seem to be willing to > listen, or even try to understand the problem they may cause by their > arrogant behaviour. I read this thread, but must have missed it. What exactly is "the problem they may cause"? -- Wes

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 04 September 2004 18:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > Most people don't encrypt mail with GPG, though they do sign with it. > I usually see GPG-encryption in IM. Encryption wouldn't work for > mailing lists, either, though signing does. In *general* encryption isn't that useful for a run-of

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Jackson wrote: Hi Craig! | My own idea is that PGP/GPG could save us all from spam and SMTP | messages being clear text in one fell swoop. If everyone | encrypted their email using GPG/PGP and refused to accept | unencrypted email or mail not encr

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My own idea is that PGP/GPG could save us all from spam and SMTP > messages being clear text in one fell swoop. If everyone encrypted their > email using GPG/PGP and refused to

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2004 19:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > > People sign their messages on Usenet as well. ?If you don't like > > PGP or GPG, that's a personal problem that you need to take care of > > on your own. > > Oh, so it is

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Craig Jackson
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:53:20 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do we have flames? Or just friendly args? > > Generally, not even arguments. Flames

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we have flames? Or just friendly args? Generally, not even arguments. Flames only come up when someone is insisting to be totally clueless. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 03 September 2004 19:11, Paul Johnson wrote: >> People sign their messages on Usenet as well.  If you don't like >> PGP or GPG, that's a personal problem that you

PGP signing (was: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian)

2004-09-04 Thread Alex Nordstrom
On Saturday, 4 Sep 2004 23:02, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > I am asking those who do to stop. But they don't seem to be willing to > listen, or even try to understand the problem they may cause by their > arrogant behaviour. Forgive me for speculating, but do you think there is any chance that migh

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Craig Jackson
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:02:15 +0200 Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2004 19:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > > People sign their messages on Usenet as well.  If you don't like > > PGP or GPG, that's a personal problem that you need to take care of > > on your own. > >

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 03 September 2004 19:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > People sign their messages on Usenet as well.  If you don't like > PGP or GPG, that's a personal problem that you need to take care of > on your own. Oh, so it is a personal problem... Well, I am taking care of it: I am asking those who do

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 03 September 2004 19:05, s. keeling wrote: > Well, that's the dumbest thought I've seen in a while.  I've seen > more signed posts to Usenet than I see in mailing lists. Then we don't hang out on the same usenet groups, I understand, because I really can't agree on that statement. And

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:01, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Why fracture and duplicate the effort already taken care of by >> lists.debian.org? > > Because we are fed up with p

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Svenn Are Bjerkem: > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:01, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why fracture and duplicate the effort already taken care of by > > lists.debian.org? > > Because we are fed up with people using pgp and gpg on emails to mailinglists. Well, that's the dumbest thought I've

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Paul, can you turn off this pgp crap? It is annoying On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 ... > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBNQPnUzgNqloQMwcR

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:01, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why fracture and duplicate the effort already taken care of by > lists.debian.org? Because we are fed up with people using pgp and gpg on emails to mailinglists. -- Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 19:58, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand > why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. I have > no problems with moderation and revealing my mail address (it's my spam > col

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-02 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoglu
begin Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki: > Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --8<-- I take it you're using POP3 to read your email. IMAP works basically the same way as NNTP, so there's no clear win either way. >> >> Is it possible to work offline with IMAP? I.e

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your PC would carry the whole NG instead of the messages you're interested > in. In the long run you would have two choices: Either set up a rather > short expiry period

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-02 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoglu
begin Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki: > On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:01 pm, Travis Crump wrote: >> >>> I don't mean the latency of posting->post appearing, I mean the >>> latency of clicking a subject and seeing the body.

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup a

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > So install Leafnode and use that as your local server. In which case he might be better off with email anyway. > > For usenet, it is equal to a network access as the body > > needs to be fetched from a usenet server. I suppose that you could > > pre-f

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:01 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > I don't mean the latency of posting->post appearing, I mean the latency > of clicking a subject and seeing the body. For e-mail the latency is > roughly equal to a hard drive access since fetchmail fetches my mail in > the background.

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>"If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and >>>wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup >>>and NOT to directly reply to the list." >> Yes. Mail replies will break threading. >Mail replies will break threading, unless y

OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Personally, I never liked the latency inherent in usenet. These days, it's about the same latency as email unless you're in some far-off corner of the planet connected only via carrier pigeon or somethin

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I never liked the latency inherent in usenet. These days, it's about the same latency as email unless you're in some far-off corner of the planet connected only via

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Travis Crump
Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. I have no problems with moderation and revealing my mail address (it's my spam collector anyway). But SMTP is for mail, NNTP is f

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 13:58, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > But SMTP is for mail, NNTP is for threaded discussions. I had once > subscribed to several lists, and seeing how awfully inefficient it is for > such things, I had summarily stopped all my list subscriptions, and I will > not subs

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand > why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. It's not, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoglu
begin Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki: > Marco d'Itri wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Is there a consensus about that? I mean, I've seen many people say that >>>the newsgroup gateway is unidirectional (from mailinglist to gateway), >>>and my own experience confirms that. >>

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Roel Schroeven
Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. I have no problems with moderation and revealing my mail address (it's my spam collector anyway). But SMTP is for mail, NNTP is f

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoglu
begin Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Is there a consensus about that? I mean, I've seen many people say that >>the newsgroup gateway is unidirectional (from mailinglist to gateway), >>and my own experience confirms that. > This is not a matter of opini

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Roel Schroeven
Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a consensus about that? I mean, I've seen many people say that the newsgroup gateway is unidirectional (from mailinglist to gateway), and my own experience confirms that. This is not a matter of opinions: the linux.debian.* mail2news gateway

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>"If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and >>wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup >>and NOT to directly reply to the list." > Yes. Mail replies will br

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from Paul Johnson: >> >> But now that your address is out in the open, there's no real point in >> munging it anyway, so what's the problem? > > It was out in the open when he tried to post to linux

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a consensus about that? I mean, I've seen many people say that >the newsgroup gateway is unidirectional (from mailinglist to gateway), >and my own experience confirms that. This is not a matter of opinions: the linux.debian.* mail2news gateway *IS* bidirectiona

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Tim Connors
Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:12:47 +0200: > "Fortunatly, linux.* *IS* a bidirectional gateway, unless your news > server is misconfigured.". > > I'm confused. Is the gateway bidirectional and is almost everyone's news > server misconfigured? Is everyone doing som

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Roel Schroeven
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is not a "fracture" or "duplication".

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:14:20AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > It's handy to reveal your genuine email address in order to subscribe to > the list, but AFAIK you can use a completley bogus address to write to it. > > If you do this, pls ensure you do use a bogus address and not some other

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: > > But now that your address is out in the open, there's no real point in > munging it anyway, so what's the problem? It was out in the open when he tried to post to linux.debian.user; Swen is still out there, still scraping mail addresses. -- Any technology distin

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
John Summerfield wrote: > If you do this, pls ensure you do use a bogus address and not some other > poor sod's address. Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe that use of spam.invalid is the norm. > > No, I don't mean that. Bill has enough problems already. What, with > Longhorn slipping and fragmenti

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> This is not a "fracture" or "duplica

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
John Hasler wrote: > Madhusudan Singh writes: >> It is not. I received the following message from a moderation robot when >> I tried to post a message to linux.debian.user : > >> "linux.debian.user is a moderated newsgroup in gateway >> with a mailing list. > > The mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Madhusudan Singh wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: alt.os.linux.debian Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by requesting them to carry it. Le

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread John Hasler
Madhusudan Singh writes: > It is not. I received the following message from a moderation robot when I > tried to post a message to linux.debian.user : > "linux.debian.user is a moderated newsgroup in gateway > with a mailing list. The mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] is open. The newsgroup linux.d

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is not a "fracture" or "duplication". To post to this group, I had >> to reveal my email address and go through a two email process of

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is not a "fracture" or "duplication". To post to this group, I had to > reveal my email address and go through a two email process of subscription. No, you didn't. It

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> alt.os.linux.debian >> >> Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by >> requesting them to carry it. >> >> L

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > alt.os.linux.debian > > Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by > requesting them to carry it. > > Let us get it started. Why fracture and

First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
alt.os.linux.debian Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by requesting them to carry it. Let us get it started. -- CHARTER: For questions and answers relating to the ins