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