On Tuesday 13 June 2006 01:42, Remi Vanicat wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes: > > Hi folks, > > [...] > > > 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. > > Could it be possible to also add a whitelist for the (improbable) case > when someone have a legitimate reason for it? Such a person will have > to contact someone to ask to be added, and addition will be > manual. It's inconvenient for him, but as it is improbable, it is not > really a problem. > > By the way, such a whitelist could be added only when needed. One other possibility would be to whitelist e-mails with valid PGP-signatures from keys on the Debian keyring (and possibly another "whitelist" keyring that is only used for this purpose). Actually, this would be nice for all the Debian lists. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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