On 26/03/2016 01:18, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/25/2016 5:57 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
Yeah, but how many NNTP clients would support that? Certainly one
could build
this feature on top of NNTP, but then it would not be pure NNTP anymore,
and I guess it would break many clients, no?
No, it wouldn't. The PGP signature doesn't break clients. They just
ignore it (i.e. consider it part of the message body).
For reading posts, it wouldn't break clients, no. But what about writing
messages with PGP signatures? If the client doesn't supported creating
them automatically, it's too much of a pain the ass to do that manually.
You'd have the
option of what client to use, and if you use DFeed, it could be set to
not present unregistered postings to you (a perq of registering
yourself, you can customize the settings).
Oh, no, no, no. That's a broken system. If one were to add such a layer
of only allowing registered postings, this would have to be enforced for
all users, not on a per-user preference. Otherwise you'd have a
two-layer forum that would get super confusing. What if a registered
poster replies to a non-registered poster message? I'd still see such
messages. Or what about people that I want to see their posts, but they
didn't bother to register and post unregistered?
This is one of those things what would have to be a like a code
formatting guidelines: it has to be the same for all developers in a
project. It can't be like the choice of IDE/editor, which can be left to
individual preference.
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Bruno Medeiros
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