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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Motion for a new POST NSF AUP
I personally think slightly smarter exploders might go a long way. For example: 1) a list server that recognizes the "subscribe me" messages and informs the subscriber without bothering the whole list, 2) an exploder that "suspends" messages with more than, say 6 lists and newsgroups, and notifies the sender. If the sender is not a real address, it automatically is purged. : you get the idea. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William B. Norton Merit Network Inc. e-mail: [email protected] phone: (313) 936-2656 WWW: http://home.merit.edu/~wbn On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Tim Bass wrote: > > The motion on the table for a Post NSF AUP appears to be dying. The support > for my motion is weak in the early stages. I like the idea of PGP authentication > in list servers, except for the fact that adding PGP authentication to > list servers will greatly slow down the processing time of large lists. > > The large public key rings required for large lists do not scale well. > Second, the use of PGP authentication would restrict list participation to > those with the ability to use PGP (this might be a *good* way to promote > PGP use, on the other hand) > > Unless strong support for the AUP motion is observed today, I plan to > table the motion for a Post NSF AUP for the Internet. The general concensus > appears to be that an AUP would not be useful. I do not agree, but am > more than happy to withdraw my motion, given weak support the AUP idea > has received. > > The ideas for PGP authentication merit further discussion, especially > the points above on reduced processing time with large public key rings. > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Tim Bass | #include<campfire.h> | > | Principal Network Systems Engineer | for(beer=100;beer>1;beer++){ | > | The Silk Road Group, Ltd. | take_one_down(); | > | | pass_it_around(); | > | http://www.silkroad.com/ | } | > | | back_to_work(); /*never reached */ | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >
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