Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC14] Full Anonymization Project Idea

2015-02-17 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Hi I am a prospective Gsoc'15 applicant. I found the Anonymous mailing list idea for project interesting. While researching about the same I found this thread. I have a queries regarding this : Can't we keep our encryption application away from the site admins by creating an interface between

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman.

2015-02-18 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Hi, I think this might help you. Timed delay or timed delivery of messages - Suppose I wish to post a message to list but instead of composing and sending i prefer to send it delayed like I wish to post a message at 4am but since i would be sleeping at that time so what i can do,I will post my

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC14] Full Anonymization Project Idea

2015-02-18 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
of their kind. Some syndromes are not cured beacuse of social stigmas that could find a possible solution in such lists. Rashi Karanpuria writes: Can't we keep our encryption application away from the site admins by creating an interface between sender and the switchboard ,what I'm trying

Re: [Mailman-Developers] full anonymisation approach

2015-03-13 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Aside: I think if you actually use such a list you'll discover that most shy people are far more afraid of being flamed than they are of social stigma *outside* of the discussion thread. OTOH, it is likely to bring out the worst in trolls. IMHO YMMV etc. We can't overlook the fact here that

Re: [Mailman-Developers] full anonymisation approach

2015-03-13 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Sorry, I forgot to add the footnotes for the previous mail on this thread. footnotes: [1] http://counseling.caltech.edu/general/InfoandResources/Shyness [2] The Internet: Biographies (google books) Regards Rashi ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] full anonymisation approach

2015-03-10 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: It's really not possible. You have proposed an implementation but not addressed the requirements issue. In software engineering correct design means the implementation will satisfy the requirements, but I still don't really understand what problem you are trying

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Willing to Contribute in GNU Mailman

2015-03-03 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Hi Priyank documentation https://pythonhosted.org/mailman/index.html bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman Good luck :) Hello Developers, I want to contribute in GNU Mailman . I'm a fourth year undergraduate Student . I am familiar with C/C++,Python,HTML,CSS,Javascript .Please can anyone

[Mailman-Developers] Same/different fake ids for every thread in an anonymous list

2015-03-04 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Hi all I wish to seek your opinion regarding generating fake id in anonymous list. There are two options to choose from 1) Different fake id for user per thread 2) Same fake id for user regardless of thread Which do you think is better Regards Rashi

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Error in postorius mailman settings page

2015-03-05 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
Hi ashish No its not a bug. Probably there are more than one instances of mailman running on your system (mailman start). Check for them using ps -ef | grep mailman command on your terminal (if you are using linux) and sudo kill those process ids'. Eg.process having id 12345 can be killed by using

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Error in postorius mailman settings page

2015-03-05 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
the error. As I kill the process, It killed all the process of mailman. Hence I got Mailman REST API not available. Please start Mailman core. Which means I need to start mailman again and If I do so the whole problem repeats itself. Thanks On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Rashi Karanpuria 2013

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC14] Full Anonymization Project Idea

2015-02-20 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
I totally understand that claiming to provide total privacy to any individual could be vague and debatable in this case. And if we apply the usual encryption it becomes very easy to hack. So using normal cryptography is ruled out. But if we could implement salting. We generate a salt when a user

[Mailman-Developers] Approach for full anonymization of a mailing list

2015-03-08 Thread Rashi Karanpuria
1) We create a database table with the schema | orig_id | fake_id | thread_name | where whenever the user posts a first message to some thread a new fake random id is generated and stored in this table. For a specific user fake_id remains same for specific thread. 2) We need to remove the old