Subj : Pascal & CGI
To   : Stephen Hayes
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu May 20 2004 09:03 am

Hi Stephen.

18-May-04 03:57:38, Stephen Hayes wrote to Jasen Betts


 SH> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Stephen Hayes:

 JB>> Hi Stephen.

 JB>> 13-May-04 20:06:04, Stephen Hayes wrote to mark lewis

 SH>> mark lewis wrote in a message to Stephen Hayes:

 SH>>>> JAM has problems with Netmail privacy.

 DE>>> Not in my experiences. I do happen to currently use Hudson for
 DE>>> netmail but I've used Jam in the past with no adverse affects
 DE>>> I've been able to see.

 ml>>> i've used JAM since about a year before it was released for
 ml>>> public consumption... i'm one of the original beta testers of
 ml>>> JAM... in what way is JAM a privacy risk?

 SH>> Users can read netmail messages addressed to other users.

 JB>> sounds like a software problem not a failing of Jam, the JAM
 JB>> format supports the Private flag... either your tosser or your
 JB>> BBS is ignoring it.

 SH> JAM is software;

Yes, but not the sort that computers run.

ZIP is a file format, pkzip, winzip and infozip are tools for
manipulating thhat sort of file.

It's like that with jam too. The documents describe the file format.
anything that uses that format is jam software reguardless of where it came
from.

 SH> the problem was also with messages entered on the
 SH> BBS, so it couldn't have been the tosser

 SH> And messages were private under RA when using other message bases.

so there's a mismatch between RA and the implementation of JAM which you
tried.

 SH> But it should be easy to test - if you are using JAM for netmail,
 SH> try it out and see. Add a couple of users as aliases of yourself,
 SH> wihtout sysop security, and enter a few private messages, and then
 SH> see if they can read each other's messages.

I can't actually do that here, but I can see the pvt flags being set or
unset on the messages, if I had a BBS running here I could see if it
recognised the PVT flags...

 -=> Bye <=-

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