Re: [9fans] Raise the bar

[Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>]

Here's a strawman* proposal for the developers' list:

Everybody who posts to it already has or can get an account on
sources.  If the labs will let us use the sources authentication
server for this purpose, we require someone sending mail to the list
to 9fs to the machine holding the archives and mailing out the copies.
They execute (probably encapsulated in a shell script, say
/n/9fans/rc/bin/9fans):

	9fs 9fans &&
	mount -b /n/9fans/mail/box /mail/box &&
	mount /n/9fans/mail/lib /mail/lib &&
	mail 9fans

A copy is appended to the archive mailbox (without using SMTP) and
copies are mailed out to the list subscribers (or perhaps they can
just read the archive mailbox if they prefer).

Obviously one can set upasname, but the point is not flawless
authentication (though that can be had by looking at the logs on
9fans), but simply keeping out those without accounts on sources.

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