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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Private/public groups
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:32:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqvj756o.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aamovc6z.fsf@lifelogs.com>

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I think it's better as "privacy if the image came from a writeable
> backend, open if it came from a read-only backend."  The idea being that
> you get mail delivered to a writeable backend so spam has a chance to
> reach you there, whereas you seek out content in read-only backends so
> spam is much less likely to be targeted at you.

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

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-09 15:32 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 [this message]
2010-10-09 19:07     ` James Cloos
2010-10-10  6:41       ` Ted Zlatanov

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