| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:10:23 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:42:04PM -0400, kevin mudrick wrote: [http://www.m-o-o-t.org/] > hmm. perusing the site, their ideas look interesting, but i can't really > find any indication as to how far along they are.. guess i'd have to join > the mailing list. Not far. There's a lot of low-level detail work (the "reboot when the CD is ejected" idea is neat... but turns out to be a royal pain to make work cross-platform... that is, the CD is supposed to work on all popular processor architectures--meaning i386 and macppc initially, probably, and getting events even in the kernel, much less in userland, from the CD-ROM's eject button is differently complicated in different places) that needs to be taken care of. There are some chunks that are totally easy, just issues of tailoring a NetBSD install to include the (usually optional) software that's needed and to remove the (usually default) software that's not, and that stuff's presumably done, as is the process for creating a CD-ROM bootable on a variety of architectures. (The NetBSD ISOs have been doing that for most supported architectures for quite a while anyhow.) > Since I've yet to find anything thus far, I'm thinking I might be > interested in trying to set something up too.. I'll email you offlist. Don't promise to have a whole lot of time before June or so, but I'd be glad to try. > Hmm. Wouldn't it be possible to encrypt all the mails to the list > recipients, one at a time, add them to a queue, and then send them out? Sure, but then *everyone's* slow, and that's no fun. ;^> > using smtp-over-ssl.. wouldn't that require every user's particular mail > server to support it? Sure, but I was suggesting that as a solution to my "secure server notifications" problem (which I think an encrypted mailing list software also solves well), not as a solution to the "we want an encrypted mailing list" problem. > i suppose theoretically, one could get around the > cleartext issue by giving all list members access to smtp-ssl and pop3-ssl > (or imap-ssl, i guess) on the machine hosting the list... messages would > never really leave the server. i dunno. But this is probably unacceptable for a mailing list in the traditional terms. (Puts not just mail delivery but also mail *reading* load on the server, make subscription to the mailing list a royal bitch both for the user and the administrator, since you *really* don't want to automate SSL access-granting enough to take the admin out of it.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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