[21486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An alternative suggestion (was Re: Hold on to your news servers)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Nov 16 01:14:06 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 00:42:56 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
Cc: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981115132924.17536B-100000@labyrinth.logic.net>; from Edward S. Marshall on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 02:29:11PM -0600
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 02:29:11PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> simply set up INN out of the box, with cancels enabled, and never change
> the defaults. This means that when your cancels leak, and they will,
> administrators have to opt-out. Saying this is the fault of their peers is
> merely petty buck-passing; it's the fault of -YOUR- peers.)
>
> This is why I don't support Karl's proposal. Not because it is a
> fundamentally bad idea or because I have a problem with him personally
> (the latter of which has been seen far too much), but because it fails to
> address the basic need for personal privacy in a public forum, and because
> it fails to operate as a strictly opt-out mechanism.
Ditto that. And really, it CAN'T operate strictly as an opt-out mechanism.
While I'm sure Karl is quite competent enough to be able to configure a server
and a newsfeed, he is only human, and mistakes *do* happen.
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