From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50363 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: deskpot@myrealbox.com (Vasily Korytov) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: User-Agent string Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:18:02 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87bs119vc5.fsf@unix.home> References: <87d6m2ywwq.fsf@unix.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046125371 1614 80.91.224.249 (24 Feb 2003 22:22:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nQzq-0000Ps-00 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:22:50 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18nQyg-0006aS-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:21:38 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:22:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA07489 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:22:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21572 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 22:21:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21567 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 22:21:17 -0000 Original-Received: from ns1.telekom.ru (root@194.190.195.83) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 22:21:17 -0000 Original-Received: from unix.home (h90.217.elnet.msk.ru [194.190.217.90]) by ns1.telekom.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1OML23e004507 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:21:03 +0300 Original-Received: (qmail 1474 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 22:24:22 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (alias@127.0.0.1) by localhost with QMTP; 24 Feb 2003 22:24:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1388 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Feb 2003 22:18:05 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: VK Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:12:26 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50363 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "RS" =3D=3D Reiner Steib writes: RS> On Sat, Feb 22 2003, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: >>=20 >>> To make it easier for the user to expose less information, we could >>> add something like this... >>>=20 >>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >>> (defcustom gnus-user-agent 'full >>> "Which information should be exposed in the User-Agent header. >>=20 >> I think this makes most sense -- letting the user decide. RS> The attached patch contains code, documentation and ChangeLog entries RS> for this. Maybe, we should consider replacing 'full with 'emacs-gnus-type (that is, no system-configuration exposion). I see two reasons for that: 1. Those two types seem to serve the same purpose. For me, they're identical, but: 2. As it was said somewhere in the thread, system-configuration may reveal some security-sensitive information. Besides, it's sometimes very igly. =2D-=20 I accept RFC3156 and RFC1991-compatible encrypted mail. PGP key fingerprint: 123A 7CCE 6E26 6233 0D87 E01A A0F8 3524 FCD8 1841 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WpodoPg1JPzYGEERAobcAKCgp0P4NBAb3CO3f+HU8qj3ZPzhrQCgky9T aUuQ7p+5xHqsR2zzE04dxac= =C0Hd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--