FYI gmane cctalk group

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Aug 25 07:17:41 CDT 2015


> On Aug 25, 2015, at 3:45 AM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
> 
> Archive.org was supposed to host these, so the archival is good w/o gmane.
> 
> However in googleing and verifying about that, I ran across something called archive-org.com which is hosted by a "private" registration of some sort, so I don't know if it has a damn thing to do with archive.org or not.  It has this list on it already.  And wants me to register to get an account for access.
> 
> If it is a virus bait site for these well meaning "free" archives, that is precisely why there needs to be authorized archives and not just anyone who feels like it.

Why?  What does "authorized" have to do with the integrity of the data?

If you want data with integrity, apply an integrity mechanism.  That's why digital signatures were invented.

	paul




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