Re: regarding IETF lists using mailman: nodupes considered harmful

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU>]

On Aug 26, 2005, at 05:42, Jari Arkko wrote:
> I realize that this is something that could happen. Interesting
> attack! But I missed the part where its somehow news to
> us that e-mail system can be tricked in various ways.

It's not.  But that doesn't mean we need to add new ways, and enable  
them by default.

> And: Most of the time in important discussions it does not matter
> if some messages get lost.

No, most of the time it doesn't.  But occasionally it does.

> (Personally, I like to receive duplicates because then I know
> the emails have gone to the list.)

So do I.  My thanks to Keith for pointing this out... it wouldn't  
have occurred to me that the defaults would be "wrong" for otherwise  
reasonable mailing list software. :-)  Guess I should check some of  
my subscriptions... now, if I could just remember all the lists on  
all the servers I've subscribed to....

Ken

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