RE: mail archive

Geoff Voelker (voelker@cs.washington.edu)
Mon, 01 Jun 1998 22:42:34 -0700 (PDT)

The password only restricts access via the web server; any machine
that mounts sirpa-a:/loom/syn would still be able to see the archive
via nfs even if we had a web password on it. To be truly restrictive,
we would need to place the archive in a directory that was only
exported to the web server, or place the archive on the web server
itself in a place that is not exported to the rest of the department.

-geoff

savage@cs.washington.edu writes:
> I have no problem with anyone in the dept who wants to read the list.
> If we want it more restrictive we could always add a password. Its more
> inconvenient to me that the list doesn't work from windows... so I vote
> to make it accessible via the web server.
>
> - Stefan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoff Voelker [SMTP:voelker@cs.washington.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 10:32 PM
> > To: syn@cs
> > Subject: mail archive
> >
> > After more effort than I want to acknowledge, we finally have an
> > archive setup for the syn mailing list. It's currently at:
> >
> > file:///projects/networking/archive/mail/archive_index/index.html
> >
> > which requires you to have nfs access (and which means it doesn't work
> > from PCs). Doing it this way has the most restrictive access. I
> > don't know how sensitive people are about the mailing list, but if we
> > want to access it via the web server then the archive must be world
> > readable and anyone in the department could potentially read the
> > archive (via nfs). That's fine by me, but I didn't want to make it
> > that way unless I got the general ok.
> >
> > -geoff