From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:00:21 WST-8WST,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,0 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2124 Reply-To: os2genau_digest at os2site.com X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 29 January 2017 Number 2124 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 registering to upload to hobbes : 2 Re: registering to upload to hobbes : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:49:29 +0800 (WST) From: Subject: registering to upload to hobbes Hi Everyone, Hobbes provides a great, and free service for the OS/2 community but over the years it has begun to take up more time for the maintainer(s) to remove all those strange files that appear in incoming. They have also ended up with an ever growing list of banned IP address's in the process which is likely to impact on the access of other people as IP address's are moved around a lot more than they have been in the past due to limited allocations for IPv4. The idea has been floated (just thought about at present by the maintainers) to have people register (still free) before they're allowed to upload to Hobbes. The registration would have to include an email address for password reset. This would remove the addition effort for the maintainers that is currently required to keep Hobbes incoming in a clean state. It might even be possible if this were to happen, for up-loaders to have better control of removing their own content in incoming due to bloopers or updated files before incoming is cleared. Any other ideas or comments would be welcomed. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site.com/ ----------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe go to =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This is a pulp free product. **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:38:37 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: registering to upload to hobbes On 2017-Jan-29 16:49, deadmail wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Hobbes provides a great, and free service for the OS/2 community but over > the years it has begun to take up more time for the maintainer(s) to > remove all those strange files that appear in incoming. They have also > ended up with an ever growing list of banned IP address's in the process > which is likely to impact on the access of other people as IP address's > are moved around a lot more than they have been in the past due to limited > allocations for IPv4. > > The idea has been floated (just thought about at present by the > maintainers) to have people register (still free) before they're allowed > to upload to Hobbes. The registration would have to include an email > address for password reset. This would remove the addition effort for the > maintainers that is currently required to keep Hobbes incoming in a clean > state. > > It might even be possible if this were to happen, for up-loaders to have > better control of removing their own content in incoming due to bloopers > or updated files before incoming is cleared. > > Any other ideas or comments would be welcomed. > The plan looks good. I don't think any of the usual uploaders would object to having to supply a password. There's always the risk that the attackers would also register, but that sounds less likely. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ----------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe go to =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a pulp free product.