> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:31:33 +0200 > From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles_at_skynet.be> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org > > At 9:03 PM +0400 2004-07-02, Roman Kurakin wrote: > > >> Has there ever been any discussion about making the list subscribers-only? > >> It's not ideal but it stops this kind of nonsense (or at least gives list > >> owners a target for reprisal). > > Do you think trolls do not know how to subscribe? > > If some troll is going to forge someone else's e-mail address, > that would get them through the subscriber-only filter anyway. > > The ability to take any kind of corrective action in response is > going to be minimal, especially if the owners of the sending system > are not cooperative. > > > The only solution IMHO to sign messages. It's time to find out how to do this > > automaticaly with Mozila :-) > > Yup. PGP sign everything, and make sure that your keys don't > ever get stolen or compromised. That makes it much harder for > someone to successfully impersonate you. The hitch (for those using Mozilla) is that it supports s/mime, not PGP. I believe that there is a plugin out there somewhere to add PGP capability, but I have never tried it as I don't use Mozilla to send mail. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman_at_es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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