new mailing list for FDSCo
by Karsten Wade
To help keep traffic on this list focused on actual documentation work,
we have formed a separate list for the Fedora Documentation Steering
Committee (FDSCo) to have discussions.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-dsco-list
This list is open, publicly archived, and has no restrictions on
membership or who can post. You are heartily encouraged to join, lurk,
and keep us on our toes.
On topic for the list is FDSCo business. Generally this means FDSCo
members are doing the discussing, but you may join the discussion if
your comments are on topic _and_ relevant.
All other topics should be discussed on fedora-docs-list.
Minutes from our weekly IRC meetings on #fedora-docs will be mailed to
this new list for archiving.
In this way we can practice open, transparent leadership without
burdening the general docs discussion with administrivia.
cheers - Karsten
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Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
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Red Hat SELinux Guide
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
19 years
Self Introduction : William Hoffmann
by William HOFFMANN
Hello everyboy
So here's my self introduction:
1/ My name is William HOFFMANN
2/ I'm living in Pantin (near Paris) in France. And I'm working in
Nanterre on the other side of Paris...
3/ I'm a training instructor, I'm teaching in the linux area.
4/ My compagny is Red Hat Inc,
5/ My goals in the fedora project :
My first goal is to share my knowledge
I'd like to write about network or mail systems ( Postfix ) and
I'm currently working on a doc about securisation of mail system
( postfix/ssl/tls/clamav/spamassin)
My native language is french ... and I hope my english is good
enough to be well understood.
6/ Historical qualifications :
To learn docbook I've wrote some "memo" in french see =>
http://people.redhat.com/~hoffmann/
I've some skills in Linux / networking / system administration
7/ GPG KEYID and fingerprint :
pub 1024D/A2C85378 2004-09-30 William HOFFMANN (William)
<hoffmann(a)redhat.com>
Empreinte de la clé = F5EC D418 5989 3D9A C7B8 565D 95EA 1BD9 A2C8
5378
sub 2048g/484A92F6 2004-09-30
http://people.redhat.com/~hoffmann/william_hoffmann.asc
Anything else ?
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19 years
[Fwd: Docbook wiki]
by David Malcolm
Has anyone tried this? Looks like a bridge between DocBook and a
wiki-style of editing, as discussed on recent threads.
I haven't yet tried actual editing with the software.
19 years
Re: Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles
David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:36 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
>
>
>>If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted
>>e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss. If you are
>>even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and
>>not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator
>>directly at <listname-admin(a)redhat.com>. If someone knows how to get
>>the word out on the international lists or to their administrators
>>(since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so. If someone knows
>>who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail
>>addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person
>>who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact
>>him or her and let us know how to contact that person.
>>
>
> The problem is spam not the lists nor list management.
True but the list management could take on small step to protect all of
us, so I don't see why they shouldn't do it, particularly when they have
already taken a similar step on Red Hat website.
19 years
DocBook Wiki Setup Help
by Tommy Reynolds
I'm trying to get this Docbook Wiki tool setup locally. I've
installed the swish-e prerequisite and then downloaded and built the
"book" tool from the website.
How do I connect the PHP stuff from the Docbook Wiki to my local http
server? No, I'm not much of a web guy.
Thanks!
19 years
Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles
Hi all,
I sent what I thought was a very important request to one of the Fedora
lists which was quickly beaten down, and I did not receive anything back
on subsequent replies. I would appreciate your help in making sure that
the lists are safe for all of us. I'm actually going to the trouble of
subscribing to nearly all of the Red Hat mailing lists just to get the
word out.
One thing that I have done recently was to search for my e-mail
addresses on the Internet web pages to find all of the places that list
them. Why bother doing this? Just like how Google has spiders that
crawl the Internet to gather general information, spammers have spiders
that crawl the Internet to gather e-mail addresses to spam people. I
have contacted all of the websites who did not modify my e-mail
addresses (mostly on mailing lists) in such that they cannot be
collected. Red Hat has done at least one thing right in that they have
modified everyone's e-mail address in their web archive, such that it
reads something like <walrus bellsouth.net> for mine.
However Red Hat has left one big gaping whole that the spam spiders can
still crawl into. There is a complete active mirror of these lists as
postable newsgroups kept on a service called Gmane <http://gmane.org>.
I'm using Gmane to write this message to you now. It's a pretty
sophisticated setup, has safeguards to prevent spam getting posted, and
they use Spam Assassin to clean up stuff that still ends up on the list
(except you have to filter it yourself on the newsgroup interface). The
only problem is that spam spiders crawl the newsgroups to collect e-mail
addresses.
Gmane has a safeguard to prevent this, but it has to be turned on by the
list administrator. Gmane can encrypt the e-mail addresses on the list
such that any mail sent to them is routed through Gmane first, and then
the sender must under go a challenge-response before the message gets
routed to the actual recipient. Of all of the Red Hat lists I've only
found two newsgroup mirrors that use address encryption:
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.java <fedora-java-list>, and
gmane.redhat.taroon <taroon-beta-list>.
If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted
e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss. If you are
even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and
not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator
directly at <listname-admin(a)redhat.com>. If someone knows how to get
the word out on the international lists or to their administrators
(since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so. If someone knows
who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail
addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person
who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact
him or her and let us know how to contact that person.
Thanks so much,
William
19 years
Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles
Hi all,
I sent what I thought was a very important request to one of the Fedora
lists which was quickly beaten down, and I did not receive anything back
on subsequent replies. I would appreciate your help in making sure that
the lists are safe for all of us. I'm actually going to the trouble of
subscribing to nearly all of the Red Hat mailing lists just to get the
word out.
One thing that I have done recently was to search for my e-mail
addresses on the Internet web pages to find all of the places that list
them. Why bother doing this? Just like how Google has spiders that
crawl the Internet to gather general information, spammers have spiders
that crawl the Internet to gather e-mail addresses to spam people. I
have contacted all of the websites who did not modify my e-mail
addresses (mostly on mailing lists) in such that they cannot be
collected. Red Hat has done at least one thing right in that they have
modified everyone's e-mail address in their web archive, such that it
reads something like <walrus bellsouth.net> for mine.
However Red Hat has left one big gaping whole that the spam spiders can
still crawl into. There is a complete active mirror of these lists as
postable newsgroups kept on a service called Gmane <http://gmane.org>.
I'm using Gmane to write this message to you now. It's a pretty
sophisticated setup, has safeguards to prevent spam getting posted, and
they use Spam Assassin to clean up stuff that still ends up on the list
(except you have to filter it yourself on the newsgroup interface). The
only problem is that spam spiders crawl the newsgroups to collect e-mail
addresses.
Gmane has a safeguard to prevent this, but it has to be turned on by the
list administrator. Gmane can encrypt the e-mail addresses on the list
such that any mail sent to them is routed through Gmane first, and then
the sender must under go a challenge-response before the message gets
routed to the actual recipient. Of all of the Red Hat lists I've only
found two newsgroup mirrors that use address encryption:
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.java <fedora-java-list>, and
gmane.redhat.taroon <taroon-beta-list>.
If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted
e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss. If you are
even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and
not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator
directly at <listname-admin(a)redhat.com>. If someone knows how to get
the word out on the international lists or to their administrators
(since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so. If someone knows
who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail
addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person
who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact
him or her and let us know how to contact that person.
Thanks so much,
William
19 years
OT: Free / Open Source Software Survey
by Florian Reiss
Dear fedora-docs-list subscribers,
I am sorry for interrupting your discussion but maybe you are interested
in participating in a scientific survey...
I am currently writing my masters thesis in Psychology at the University
of Cologne, Germany. I am writing my thesis about the open source
community i.e. experiences of developers and users with the open source
community. By filling out a questionnaire I designed you would help me
to find out about personal motivations for knowledge sharing and
cooperation in software projects and software communities.
I would be very grateful if you could take 5-10 minutes of your time to
help me and would appreciate your experts opinion on the matter.
If you are interested in taking part in this survey please use the link
below to get to the questionnaire. In case you are not interested or
too busy you may simply erase this email.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Link to the questionnaire:
http://www.unipark.de/uc/survey/index.php3?a=fdoc
Details about the survey:
* The questionnaire is in English and in German.
* At the end of the online questionnaire you can take part in a raffle
initiated by me.
* The investigation is done anonymously which means that no personalised
links (invitation to the survey with an individual parameter) are used.
* The parameter "fdoc" is just used for methodical reasons in order to
know how you have been invited to the questionnaire.
* The investigation is done by a partially standardised questionnaire
(open and closed questions).
* No cookies are set.
* All participants will have access to the quantitative statistics on my
website.
* When the survey period has finished the completely anonymous data set
will be offered for download.
Best regards, Florian Reiss
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freiss(a)gmx.de
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19 years
