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Re: Security advisory: uw-imap - 3 attachments
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:19:46 +0000
- Subject: Re: Security advisory: uw-imap - 3 attachments
> >But so is cygwin-patches, and gmane *can* post to cygwin-patches!
>
> 1) I didn't know that.
>
> 2) cygwin-patches hasn't (yet) been abused by people who send off-topic
> email. If it is abused, then I'll request similar blocking from gmane.
>
> >gmane requires a legitimate email address before posting, and
> >therefore gmane will not allow an unsubscribe user to post to
> >a moderated list.
gmane requests an address PER list (in other words, registering
to post to gmain.comp.accessibility.vision does not also let you
post to cygwin-apps). It also asks for your email address, so
on a managed list, your post should only get through if your
email address is already a subscriber to that list. Therefore,
using gmane to post to cygwin-patches only works if you are
already a subscriber of cygwin-patches. That was all I was
asking for cygwin-apps, but I see your point of view, and will
live with it, without any further comments on this thread.
>
> I requested the one-way aspect of this gmane forum and would have taken
> more draconian steps on sourceware.org if this option wasn't available.
--
Eric Blake