From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28530 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: User Agent string: making it more specific? Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 06:58:59 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <877lhry0vy.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <873dsf1ol4.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165361 30348 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F4AD051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 07:00:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAB05769; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 05:57:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 05:56:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA08478 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 05:56:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from fido.kiva.net (fido.kiva.net [206.97.64.41]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F885D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 06:54:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 23032 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2000 11:54:56 -0000 Original-Received: from dial398.bton.kiva.net (HELO megalith.bp.aventail.com) (216.9.129.142) by fido.kiva.net with SMTP; 3 Jan 2000 11:54:56 -0000 Original-Received: from wmperry by megalith.bp.aventail.com with local (Exim 3.11 #1 (Debian)) id 12568Z-0000ch-00; Mon, 03 Jan 2000 06:58:59 -0500 Original-To: Florian Weimer X-Face: O~Rn;(l][/-o1sALg4A@xpE:9-"'IR[%;,,!m7 writes: > Arcady Genkin writes: > > > Although I would vote against including more stuff in User-agent, I > > don't understand how it would be any more breach of privacy than > > including Gnus and Emacs versions. Comments? > > I don't want people to know that I'm actually running Windows 2000, > you know. This is why Emacs/W3 has a paranoia setting that you can tweak: ----------- url-privacy-level's value is (email) Documentation: *How private you want your requests to be. HTTP/1.0 has header fields for various information about the user, including operating system information, email addresses, the last page you visited, etc. This variable controls how much of this information is sent. This should a symbol or a list. Valid values if a symbol are: none -- Send all information low -- Don't send the last location high -- Don't send the email address or last location paranoid -- Don't send anything If a list, this should be a list of symbols of what NOT to send. Valid symbols are: email -- the email address os -- the operating system info lastloc -- the last location agent -- Do not send the User-Agent string cookie -- never accept HTTP cookies Samples: (setq url-privacy-level 'high) (setq url-privacy-level '(email lastloc)) ;; equivalent to 'high (setq url-privacy-level '(os)) ::NOTE:: This variable controls several other variables and is _NOT_ automatically updated. Call the function `url-setup-privacy-info' after modifying this variable. You can customize this variable. ----------- Perhaps gnus should have something similar. > Just kidding. Suuuure.