From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21875 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: local variables and Gnus security Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:56:04 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199903112156.QAA07255@sclp3.sclp.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159899 25187 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA07318 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:57:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB17565; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:56:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:56:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA06033 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:56:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail2.teleport.com (mail2.teleport.com [192.108.254.43]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA07255 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:56:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 25274 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 21:56:02 -0000 Original-Received: from i48-03-18.pdx.du.teleport.com (HELO teleport.com) (216.26.2.146) by mail2.teleport.com with SMTP; 11 Mar 1999 21:56:02 -0000 Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-reply-to: on 11 Mar 1999 18:44:26 +0100. Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21875 Per Abrahamsen : > > > what version emacs are you using? in emacs 20.3 there's no > > > `inhibit-local-variables'. it's `enable-local-variables' > > > (and there's also `enable-local-eval'). > It is not nice of Stallman to remove a security related option like > that. I seem to remember the change happened a long time ago... grepping through the *NEWS files, it surfaced in emacs 19.1 > In any case, Gnus should bind `enable-local-eval' to nil before > loading any files. the default value of enable-local-eval will query the user, which is mostly safe, just noisy and confusing and somewhat prone to error, since it uses y-or-n-p which thinks that space is yes. I'm not sure gnus should be overriding user settings like this, but I can't imagine a sane reason anyone would want to enable-local-eval anyway. so, yeah. --