Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-10 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear tb, On 03:52 10.03.2004, you [tb] wrote... [1] TDMA-style confirmations will break your list subscribtion management (subscribe, monthly reminders, etc). TMDA breaks what you make it break. Just my clarification. Gmane.org does not provide a whitelisting capability for people using

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Carsten Thönges
* Leif Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just one remark ... http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test/1341 *This* is exactly how a link to an archive should look like. And everyone who compares the current archive's (IMHO close to unusable) web frontend with Gmane's Loom has to admit that Gmane

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Carsten Thönges
* Leif Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] *We believe the spam risk through Gmane to be the same or even less than the current list archives already in place.* The current list archive can easily be harvested. I wrote some time earlier (sorry, I have no Message-ID) how that can be done

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Carsten Thönges
* Leif Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Thomas, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:46:41 AM, you wrote: They are planning to eventually pump these feeds into mainstream usenet. Thomas Oh... Still with encrypted addresses, and I believe they will offer us the option of whether we want that

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Johannes Posel
Hi there Leif, Just ONE little clarification. On 23:22 08.03.2004, you [Leif Gregory] wrote... provided your From address is set to that which you have subscribed to the TB list, your message will post to the list and in doing so get posted to Gmane. Please, anyone, do not try to subscribe

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Allie Martin
Carsten Thönges wrote: CT The current list archive can easily be harvested. I wrote some time CT earlier (sorry, I have no Message-ID) how that can be done using CT some common tools like wget and sed. CT Gmane's spam protection is much better than mail-archive's. I've examined the source of a

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Carsten Thönges
VALUE=viscountess.drunkasaskunk ^ | INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=host VALUE=lamiam.com ^^^ | INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=subject VALUE=Re: GMane - here we come | INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Anne, Monday, March 8, 2004, 8:48:55 PM, you wrote: Anne I'd like to say that, despite being leery as I am about Anne usenet/open newsgroups, I feel this is worth a try. I've had a Anne good look at all the Gmane options and it seems as secure as Anne anything online can be. If we want

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Allie Martin
Carsten Thönges wrote: Look at HTML source of that page and you'll see: snip No encryption at all and very easy to grab. I see what you mean. :) -- Cheers, Allie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature Current version is 2.04.7 |

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Leif! On Tuesday, March 09, 2004, 8:48 AM, you wrote: Anne ... If we want total security we need to Anne unplug our modems and stay off the internet! :) LG That's what we like to hear!! grin This is my me too message. Except for the extensive check of Gmane which Anne did, I echo her 100

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Allie Martin
Carsten Thönges wrote: Look at HTML source of that page and you'll see: snip No encryption at all and very easy to grab. I see what you mean. :) -- -=[ Allie Martin ]=- | List Moderator PGPKeys: http://key.ac-martin.com - Sadly using ThunderBird v0.5 at work on XP Pro ;)

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Allie, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:31:03 -0500 GMT (09/03/2004, 09:31 +0700 GMT), Allie Martin wrote: We first did our research and assessed GMane's security ourselves since we don't exactly enjoy being spammed; neither do we wish to have our membership end up being spammed on account of our

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Thomas, Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 10:38:45 AM, you wrote: Thomas Please tell me you didn't just believe the theory on Gmane's Thomas own (marketing) website but have been subscribed for a while Thomas to a list mirrored via Gmane and talk from experience. Yes, I did. -- Leif (TB list

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Mary, Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 8:00:45 AM, you wrote: Mary I simply put my total trust in you, Leif, and Marck and Allie. That trust wouldn't happen to extend to your bank account would it? ;-) Mary That is completely apparent to even the most casual glance and Mary consideration. And you

OT exchange [was, Re: GMane - here we come]

2004-03-09 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Leif! On Tuesday, March 09, 2004, 5:55 PM, you wrote: Mary I simply put my total trust in you, Leif, and Marck and Allie. LG That trust wouldn't happen to extend to your bank account would it? LG ;-) Now, which one of you is going to trout me for replying to this clearly OT turn of the

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-09 Thread tb
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Leif, Just ONE little clarification. On 23:22 08.03.2004, you [Leif Gregory] wrote... provided your From address is set to that which you have subscribed to the TB list, your message will post to the list and in doing so get posted to Gmane. Please,

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Deborah W
On Monday, March 8, 2004, 4:50:46 PM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote: MDP One thing that we feel duty bound to do here is to provide you MDP with clear instructions for the use of the X-No-Archive header MDP for those that *really* don't want their posts echoed to this MDP pretty well spam-safe news

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Deborah W wrote: I'm also not satisfied with pretty well spam-safe (especially when it was zero spam risks only a few days ago) so I won't be posting. Yes, I know that nothing is spam-safe - but this is where my line is drawn. Let's say Deborah, that with the current GMane setup, you're as likely

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Deborah, Monday, March 8, 2004, 10:06:53 AM, you wrote: Deborah Can I add a reminder that the X-No-Archive header only Deborah ensures your original post isn't archived? If someone quotes Deborah you, and they don't use the X-No-Archive header, whatever Deborah they quote will be archived.

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Rich, @8-Mar-2004, 12:46 -0500 (08-Mar 17:46 UK time) rich gregory [RG] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: MDP ... instructions for the use of the X-No-Archive header for those MDP that *really* don't want their posts echoed ... MDP In your TB-list reply template, add the following: MDP

GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Trevor Langford
Can someone actually explain what GMane is! Is it a Newsgroup, some private forum, a Yahoo! group ? Do we change anything here or do we just continue reading / responding to message as they arise like now? Later: Having Googled for GMane I now see that it is a News group thing. There does seem

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 10:50:46 AM, you wrote: Hi T'Buddlers, Well, having asked for objections to the idea of reflecting the TB lists to GMane to provide access to the list in a News format, we haven't received any that stood up to scrutiny. Marck, I missed most of the original discussions

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Marck, on Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:50:46 +GMT, you wrote: MDP Well, having asked for objections to the idea of reflecting the TB MDP lists to GMane to provide access to the list in a News format, we MDP haven't received any that stood up to scrutiny. I recently set up The Bat! to work for the

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Trevor, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:02:44 + GMT (09/03/2004, 01:02 +0700 GMT), Trevor Langford wrote: Later: Having Googled for GMane I now see that it is a News group thing. There does seem to be one major obstacle in that it requires you to set your newsreader to news.gmane.org. As my

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:02:44 PM, you wrote: Can someone actually explain what GMane is! Is it a Newsgroup, some private forum, a Yahoo! group ? Do we change anything here or do we just continue reading / responding to message as they arise like now? Later: Having Googled for GMane I

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Leif, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:55:00 -0700 GMT (09/03/2004, 00:55 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote: Your e-mail address will be encrypted and overly difficult for spammers to harvest. [...] You've got three heavy duty geeks (the mods) at least who think this is a viable idea with very

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Jack, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:11:54 AM, you wrote: Jack 1. Does this mean that tbudl will now become an official Usenet Jack *newsgroup? On Gmane's servers, yes. Jack 2. Can one subscribe to it as one would normally subscribe to Jack any other Usenet newsgroup? Not in the newsgroup

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Thomas, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:20:56 AM, you wrote: *We believe the spam risk through Gmane to be the same or even less than the current list archives already in place.* Thomas I'll keep that as a sig, just in case, if you don't mind. ;-) Uhmmm, let me copyright that real quick..

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Jack, @8-Mar-2004, 12:11 -0600 (08-Mar 18:11 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JM Marck, I missed most of the original discussions regarding this JM subject, so I have a few questions. Okay - shoot. duck JM 1. Does this mean that tbudl will now become an

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Leif, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:35:00 -0700 GMT (09/03/2004, 01:35 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote: They are planning to eventually pump these feeds into mainstream usenet. Oh... -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. SYMPTOM: Beer unusually pale and

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:36:37 PM, you wrote: Dear Jack, @8-Mar-2004, 12:11 -0600 (08-Mar 18:11 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JM Marck, I missed most of the original discussions regarding this JM subject, so I have a few questions. Okay - shoot. duck

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Does anyone have the name of this new Gmane newsgroup yet? -- Best regards, Jack Using The Bat! 2.04.7 on Windows 5.1 (2600) Service Pack 1 Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information:

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:36 PM, you wrote: this looks like a good message to ( start) adding this Gmane info to THE FAQ:) MDP @8-Mar-2004, 12:11 -0600 (08-Mar 18:11 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] MDP in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JM Marck, I missed most of the original discussions

Re[3]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:11:53 PM, you wrote: Your [GMane] e-mail address will be encrypted and overly difficult for spammers to harvest. How is this done, can we see some examples of this in action BEFOE we panic? Rich, here's a pretty good explanation of how it works, but I agree, seeing

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
: GMane - here we come `-- You did it right. No, the %- means not to put a new line. Without it, it really becomes apparent when you have macros above everything else in the template. You get all sorts of blank lines above your text. -- Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Martin Webster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Dirigo, On 08 March 2004, 14:28 -0500 (08/03/200419:28 local time) Dirigo [D] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3). In your TB-list reply template, add the following: %SetHeader(X-No-Archive,Yes)%- D I have followed your instructions to a T.

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello rich, Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:11:53 PM, you wrote: rich How is this done, can we see some examples of this in action rich BEFOE we panic? Absorutery Raggy! grin http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test/1341 I just picked this one at random because it shows the encrypted URL. So, here's

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Jack, @8-Mar-2004, 13:22 -0600 (08-Mar 19:22 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: Okay - shoot. duck JM I come in peace. :) (phew!) The Gmane newsgroup server will carry an archive of all archive-able posts the TBUDL (and others). JM I'm a little

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Thomas, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:46:41 AM, you wrote: They are planning to eventually pump these feeds into mainstream usenet. Thomas Oh... Still with encrypted addresses, and I believe they will offer us the option of whether we want that to happen with our lists. We will be looking

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Leif, on Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:36:30 -0700GMT, you wrote: LG No, the %- means not to put a new line. Without it, it really becomes LG apparent when you have macros above everything else in the template. LG You get all sorts of blank lines above your text. LG LG LG LG -- LG Leif (TB list

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Peter, Monday, March 8, 2004, 2:23:33 PM, you wrote: LG LG -- LG Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Peter Or below... ;-) SCNR grin You scared the heck out of me... I just rebuilt my box and I thought... Oh no!!! I screwed up my sig delimiter! I checked my post and it was all

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 2:44:09 PM, you wrote: [] JM Additionally, what kind of posts aren't archive-able? Those bearing the header X-No-Archive: Yes will not be archived. So, in other words, if I've added X-No-Archive: Yes to my headers, then the only place where my message will ever appear is

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Rich, @8-Mar-2004, 17:00 -0500 (08-Mar 22:00 UK time) rich gregory [RG] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: RG The page you cite mentions a header tweak: X-Archive: encrypt You don't need this - the whole list will be encrypted. RG If TBUDL is broken is this some attempt to fix it? RG If it's

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Jack, Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:20:26 PM, you wrote: Jack Gmane generates e-mail, too? No... grin Gmane has the ability to allow someone to post to the list via posting to the newsgroup. However, we are not doing this as it will allow bad stuff to possibly happen (spam etc.) However, many

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Monday, March 8, 2004, 3:43 PM, you wrote: LG http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test/1341 LG I just picked this one at random because it shows the encrypted URL. nice! even colorblind I can read his real email!! good thing it wasn't the colored bubble test, I wouldnt be able to read itG and

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Trevor Langford, [TL] wrote: TL Can someone actually explain what GMane is! Go to www.gmane.org where it's fully described. There was a recent long thread about it, titled 'Time for a Newsgroup?' TL Later: Having Googled for GMane I now see that it is a News group TL thing. There does seem to

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM I'm a little confused about what archive means here. Will posts made JM to tbudl be mirrored over to this new newsgroup as they occur? Or in JM some kind of weekly/daily digest? Why not visit www.gmane.org and look at a couple of the newsgroups via the web

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM Rich, here's a pretty good explanation of how it works, but I JM agree, seeing is believing: JM http://gmane.org/tmda.php Just subscribe to one of the lists there and inspect a few of the messages. In that way, you'll see it so you can believe it or not. :) -- -=

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Paul, Monday, March 8, 2004, 4:42:28 PM, you wrote: Paul and I searched and didn't find TBUDL as a group, aren't we in Paul there, or doesn't it start til Wed.?? Nope, we aren't planning to do it till Wednesday. -- Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 2.04.4

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Allie, Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:25:00 PM, you wrote: Allie Well, you can continue reading list mail as you do now. The Allie newsgroup mirror will be just another way to read the list Allie traffic. It's read only. Allie and Leif time lag tag team. Allie's in, I'm out. See you all

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM Could it be that the newsgroup (the one that will mirror tbudl) JM hasn't actually been created yet? ,- / Marck in his initial message announcing plans \ | As such, we (the mods) are giving notice that we intend to enable | the GMane feed on Wednesday. `- I

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM The application requests the following info: That application is for us who wish to mirror the list traffic and not for you. :) All you have to do is point your newsserver to news.gmane.org, download the list of groups there, find the list you wish to subscribe to

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread George Mitchell
Marck D Pearlstone wrote: As such, we (the mods) are giving notice that we intend to enable the GMane feed on Wednesday. That still gives you folks 2 days to either brace yourselves, object strongly or look forward with eager anticipation. My reaction isn't exactly any of those things, but I

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Dennis W. Greer
Hello Leif, On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:43:15 -0700 GMT (3/8/2004, 12:43 PM -0800 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote: LG 1. Once the above link is opened, hover your mouse cursor over the LGhyperlink in the FROM line. LG 2. Click the hyperlink in the FROM line to see the TMDA in action. That's pretty

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
George Mitchell, [GM] wrote: GM Also, rational or not, the list will undoubtedly lose some GM posters. Perhaps we will gain others through GMane, but my gut GM tells me it will be a net loss. Perhaps this may have happened if we had just informed the group, without prior discussion that the

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: Just subscribe to one of the lists there and inspect a few of the messages. In that way, you'll see it so you can believe it or not. :) JM I'm doing just that, Allie, I was inaccurate there. Address encryption is optional on a list mailing list to GMane subscription

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM I'm sorry, Allie, I guess I wasn't clear. JM I'd like the information for *my* own purposes, Ah, I see. :) JM I would just like for someone to tell me what Gmane is wanting when JM they ask for the mail list's *address,* if you happen to know. They just wish to

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM Okay, I'm still confused. JM I have already subscribed to a couple of Gmane lists(just to read JM them), but I haven't tried to post to them yet. JM When (or how) do I get a chance to set this NOMAIL feature? JM And what exactly does the NOMAIL feature mean? That

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM And I would hit the reply button on my newsreader and send them to the JM same place, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Yes. JM Or to this yet-to-be-named newsgroup's address? No. We'll be making this not possible. We still wish list traffic to come via list subscriptions only.

GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Hi T'Buddlers, Well, having asked for objections to the idea of reflecting the TB lists to GMane to provide access to the list in a News format, we haven't received any that stood up to scrutiny. As such, we (the mods) are giving notice that we intend to enable the GMane feed on Wednesday. That

Re: GMane - here we come PLEASE READ

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Allie, Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:21:45 PM, you wrote: Allie You don't. List traffic will still reach your inbox unless you Allie set your subscription to NOMAIL. Ok, just to make this clear to everyone. *** The TB lists *ARE NOT* going away. *** If you like getting the TB lists via the