On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:08:48 -0500 John A Martin jam@jamux.com wrote:
"claw2" == claw "Re: [Mailman-Users] Cookies " Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:11:34 -0800 claw2> Never install the various stanzas in your web server configs.
Er.. Throw away the baby with the bath water?
Yup. They two are married at this point.
Unless I miss something cookies seem not to be involved for the ordinary subscriber, right?
No. Cookies are not involved for just subscribing to a list, but they are involved for browsing the archives, changing subscription configurations (NOMAIL, digest, etc) and such.
If your users will never wish to change their subscriptions from their default values, and you use an external archiver, yes, your users should be able to remain cookie free.
A list owner/admin can refuse cookies and operate by giving his password at every turn.
My only experience here is that this didn't work (the changes made without cookies weren't made). Try it and see. It may have changed sice I last tested this a a year ago.
It also appears that the cookies that are offered expire quickly, 3 hours IIRC.
Yup.
It would be nice of course to tidy things up to make it better for the cookie hating site. It would seem a pity for mailman to be fully dependent upon something as controversial as cookies.
I would prefer to argue that a life (or a project development) spent in avoidance of controversy is wasted. Cookies are not inherently evil. They can be abused and used for unpleasant purposes but that is not a fault of the technique itself but of its application.
-- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
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