Re: proposed addition to debian-women list filtering, please comment

["Lynoure Braakman" <lynoure@gmail.com>]

On 6/13/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:

> On the subject of collateral damage: some will point out that tor is a
> service with legitimate applications, including some that are close to the
> heart of many on this list, such as protection against invasion of privacy
> by corporations, defense against persecution by totalitarian governments,
> and freedom of association for at-risk women.  While these are all valid
> uses of tor, I believe the intersection of these uses with posting to the
> debian-women mailing list is approximately zero:  while we don't want to be
> responsible for preventing such people from contributing to Debian in
> general, there's no need for them to be able to post to debian-women in the
> process, and in many cases it's probably safer for them if they don't do so.
> I'm not aware of any legitimate posters to this list that are using tor when
> sending mail, and I can't think of any realistic cases in which it would be
> necessary for someone to do so.

As the list archives are public, I could theoretically imagine tor
being used by a woman in a situation where there is a  BOfH
disapproving debian-women or where the poster can assume posting to
(or receiving) DW to worsen their situation at work or at hobbies.
Whether these are realistic situation, I really don't know, but is it
too much work to manually moderate tor messages instead of deleting
them automatically?