- Stefan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Voelker [SMTP:voelker@cs.washington.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 10:43 PM
> To: savage@cs.washington.edu
> Cc: syn@cs
> Subject: RE: mail archive
>
> 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