On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 08:58:32 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:
> Barry, JC and some others have been doing some noodling at integrating
> TMDA (an address obscuring and whitelisting tool) into Mailman.
...
> That has it's own challenges, but at least it opens up lists into more
> of a "welcome, boys!" place again, instead of the increasingly
> paranoid, closed circles I think we're being forced into....
That's the huge attraction for me. While I don't internally phrase it
as the Ghaza strip you referenced in your mailman-developers post, the
idea that by using TMDA on the inbound side of lists we can:
-- largely return mailing lists to the open-no-subscription required
model of the 1980's and before
and by putting a TMDA-like system on the outbound side can:
-- largely return can largely validate and securely implement the
"once it leaves my network its public domain" model that recurs so
often.
Even without creating Russ-exceptions (and as a user I agree with his
requests for non-munging) they would seem a pretty significant change
from the current common practice of mailing lists. Heck, just sticking
TMDA in front of a list (as I've just done for Mailman, details on how
to access my test setup available by off-list request) is quite a
forward leap (especially in the regard of separating posting rights from
subscription status).
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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