From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 06:12:00 CST
In <yl66jfuslb.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>I can see some benefits to privacy to taking your approach. I think it
>would degrade the usability of the medium for that to be the default, used
>by administrators who have no clue what they're doing and who won't be
>able to decode even lightly encoded tokens with the help of news server
>documentation. You might say that such people shouldn't run news servers,
>and I might even agree with you, but that won't make them magically
>disappear.
>I do want the capability to be there so that sites that do know what
>they're doing can turn it on. But I think that the current semantics are
>a very reasonable default. People who care a lot about privacy can use a
>news site whose administrators know what they're doing and therefore can
>handle having the fancy encoding stuff turned on.
Exactly.
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