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 do have concerns. Since I won't use GMane, I see no benefit to me personally and perhaps a few drawbacks. My biggest concern is that it will encourage more people to add the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header, decreasing the usefulness of even the web archive. Also, rational or not, the list will undoubtedly lose some posters. Perhaps we will gain others through GMane, but my gut tells me it will be a net loss. And, I'm not convinced people's fears are completely irrational. For example, it appears that GMane only encrypts the domain part of the address. For my posts the domain is available from the Message-Id. So, all the parts are there in the clear and some pretty trivial parsing could reassemble it. Whether this would be worthwhile for a spammer to attempt is certainly questionable, but it raises enough doubt in my mind about security to give me pause. I don't have the time or inclination to carefully consider the implications of their security model. Who knows what I'm missing? -- George Using TB! 2.04.7 on Windows XP Pro 5.1, Build 2600, Service Pack 1. ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
