[LON-CAPA-dev] Public Lists

[Scott Harrison]

Dear All:

> Guy asked that all lists be publically accessible on the web at one of
> our Tuesday meetings.  He explained to me that her prefers to keep
> things as open as possible until there is a problem and I agreed with
> him.  

I do not care about preferences.  I care about reasonable
solutions.

> The code is open source, I don't see why discussing the code
> should be in private - just my opinion.

Again, the reason that I mentioned was that of security.

> Please reply to Guy if you have
> further difficulties with this. 

Again, I like things being open, so where's the difficulty here?

THIS IS AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT AND DECISIONS WILL BE MADE BY REASONABLE
DISCUSSION AND NOT BY ANY OTHER METHOD.

Everyone should feel free to reply to me if anyone would
like to discuss anything about this relatively minor issue
or anything else.

But don't ever tell me that something has to be a certain
way because so and so said so.

Regards,
Scott

> 
> Felicia
> 
> Scott Harrison wrote:
> >
> > Dear Gerd and Felicia:
> >
> > >
> > > It would be great if somebody who has access to Konqueror could try with
> > > the old lond ON A DEVELOPMENT MACHINE if this indeed hangs lond, and
> > > then see if the new lond solves the problem. If verified, this should be
> > > moved to "STABLE" asap, since - if known to the students - this would be
> > > a great way to avoid homework.
> > >
> >
> > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-dev
> > is publicly viewable.
> >
> > The solution to security is, of course, in the long term
> > not secrecy.
> >
> > However, I continually freak out about somebody somehow
> > cracking one or more of the "100%" up-to-date installations,
> > despite a pretty good security design.
> >
> > I suppose that if machines are just simply hung, then the security
> > issues are not immense.  So maybe I'm just proposing common sense
> > about when to/when not to discuss things on the listserv.
> >
> > Additionally, we could make lon-capa-dev only viewable to members
> > which may/may not be advisable for a variety of reasons I imagine.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Scott
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> Felicia Berryman
> LON-CAPA Coordinator
> Michigan State University
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Scott Harrison -- Graduate Student
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Mich. State. Univ., East Lansing, MI
harris41@msu.edu, 517-353-0998