I sent this to the wrong bloody list, my apologies everyone. My brain isn't too bright at the best of times, and it's 1AM here. I must have forums on the brain, I couldn't figure out how to respond to a single message within a digest without editing 3 separate messages. Ah well.

Goodnight!

"Jonas Maebe" wrote

However, if the server were hacked that would probably not be enough. On the other hand, it probably wouldn't be enough either in case a forum server were hacked.

Actually, that's a good point - with so much more control and comms options, a hacker could conceivably do more damage to a forum than to a listserver! I guess that's the same as saying I could do more damage with a baseball bat than with a twig :)

Given the same constraints and variables, a forum server is just as difficult to hack as the same listserver. And unless the admin login is encrypted, remote access theoretically gives more opportunity to gather plaintext logins. Mind you, so far there's been little evidence of hacker email account access via this method, despite hundreds of millions of mobile webmail users. But then, it's just a matter of time before that happens! (I have very low opinions of hackers (speaking as an ex-member), but much higher opinions of their persistence).

These are all areas that need discussion, security-wise. -Pete

Cephas Atheos wrote

I sent this to the wrong bloody list, my apologies everyone. My brain isn't too bright at the best of times, and it's 1AM here. I must have forums on the brain, I couldn't figure out how to respond to a single message within a digest without editing 3 separate messages. Ah well.

the obvious and simple answer is to not use digests ;)

it is much easier to handle individual messages as such rather than having to remember to trim all of X out and Y and Z, too... and then to address it this way as opposed to that way, etc...

i've never used digests in the 20+ years i've been messaging in all the various formats available specifically because of that...