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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: An alternative suggestion (was Re: Hold on to your news servers)
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 02:29:11PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote: > simply set up INN out of the box, with cancels enabled, and never change > the defaults. This means that when your cancels leak, and they will, > administrators have to opt-out. Saying this is the fault of their peers is > merely petty buck-passing; it's the fault of -YOUR- peers.) > > This is why I don't support Karl's proposal. Not because it is a > fundamentally bad idea or because I have a problem with him personally > (the latter of which has been seen far too much), but because it fails to > address the basic need for personal privacy in a public forum, and because > it fails to operate as a strictly opt-out mechanism. Ditto that. And really, it CAN'T operate strictly as an opt-out mechanism. While I'm sure Karl is quite competent enough to be able to configure a server and a newsfeed, he is only human, and mistakes *do* happen. -- Steve Sobol [[email protected]] Part-time Support Droid [[email protected]] NACS Spaminator [[email protected]] Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."
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