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



On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:42:39AM +0200, 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?

I imagine so.

> By the way, such a whitelist could be added only when needed.

Yep.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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