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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Private/public groups
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:41:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lj66k0ry.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iq1bdw13.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:07:44 -0400 James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote: 

>>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

TZ> I think it's better as "privacy if the image came from a writeable
TZ> backend, open if it came from a read-only backend."

LMI> Yes, so it's `gnus-news-group-p', basically.  For most people.

Excellent, that works.

JC> How about gnus-news-group-p plus the group is non-local?

JC> Non-local would mean not on the same net as the local box, so;
JC> not 127/8, 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16, etc.  Unless, of course,
JC> the lookup is also to a local network.

JC> Hmm.  A bit complicated.  But it would likely be of more general use,
JC> were Emacs able to deduce whether a given ip address is local or remote.

I don't think that's any more useful than letting the user say "this is
a safe server/backend/group so show me all images."

Ted




      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-10  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08 14:40 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 16:11 ` James Cloos
2010-10-08 16:54   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 22:17     ` James Cloos
2010-10-09 15:27       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 17:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-09 15:32   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-09 19:07     ` James Cloos
2010-10-10  6:41       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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