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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:56:41 -0500
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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <evanhensbergen@pop-server.austin.rr.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Raise the bar
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I propose we move to a three level scheme - two regular mailing lists
for users and whiners (respectively) and a developers list that can only
be posted to from inside 9 or Inferno.

   -eric

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 5:46pm, boyd, rounin wrote:
>>  SO my guess is that you're absolutely correct. They'd
>>  just use our addresses.
>
> ;)
>
> after a quick few words with andrey we agreed that either:
>
>     - killing the newsgroup, because it leaks info
>     - mangling the addresses, by the news/mail gateway
>
> would raise the bar a bit.
>
> subscription should be done in some sort of style where
> it has to be a human who's doing it (i'm sure you've
> all seen the 'type characters in this image' subscription
> tactic).  machine subscription should be eliminated.
>
> but, as we thrashed to death about a year back, we
> need new protocols.