HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat removed, linux to follow

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:31:33 +0200
> From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> At 9:03 PM +0400 2004-07-02, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> 
> >>  Has there ever been any discussion about making the list subscribers-only?
> >>  It's not ideal but it stops this kind of nonsense (or at least gives list
> >>  owners a target for reprisal).
> >  Do you think trolls do not know how to subscribe?
> 
> 	If some troll is going to forge someone else's e-mail address, 
> that would get them through the subscriber-only filter anyway.
> 
> 	The ability to take any kind of corrective action in response is 
> going to be minimal, especially if the owners of the sending system 
> are not cooperative.
> 
> >  The only solution IMHO to sign messages. It's time to find out how to do this
> >  automaticaly with Mozila :-)
> 
> 	Yup.  PGP sign everything, and make sure that your keys don't 
> ever get stolen or compromised.  That makes it much harder for 
> someone to successfully impersonate you.

The hitch (for those using Mozilla) is that it supports s/mime, not
PGP. I believe that there is a plugin out there somewhere to add PGP
capability, but I have never tried it as I don't use Mozilla to send
mail.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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