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21 years ago From: Carl P. Corliss
>>>MultiDomain newsgroups:
>>>-----------------------
>>>Allowing users to access newsgroups from multiple domains. In particular,
>>>we need to allow users to access public newsgroups across multiple
>>>domains (ie., anonymous user). For example, we have domains
>>>ddfoundation.org and xaraya.com (default domain) with the following
>>>shared folders (this isn't all just a small selection of them):
>>>
>>>newsgroup maps to public/private
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>ddf.bod ddf/bod@ddfoundation.org private
>>>ddf.public ddf/public@ddfoundation.org public
>>>ddf.founders ddf/founders@ddfoundation.org private
>>>xaraya.developer xaraya/developer private
>>>xaraya.public-dev xaraya/public-dev public
>>>xaraya.pmc xaraya/pmc private
>>>xaraya.users xaraya/users public
>>>xaraya.curiousa xaraya/curiousa public
>>>
>>
>>I agree that this makes perfect sense for newsgroups. You'd have to
>>check the list archives for some of the issues that I've brought up
>>before, but the two that come to mind right now are how to handle the
>>'anyone' and 'anonymous' userids (how to differentiate between anyone
>>within the domain and anyone regardless of domain?) and how to present
>
>
> You could make anonymous rights explicit - meaning that 'anyone' doesn't allow
> 'anonymous' (which would be the opposite of what, iirc, it does currently). I
> would think that anonymous should show all folders that are set public with
> anonymous rights (anonymous +lr) and 'anyone' should only refer to users who
> have authenticated and are within that specific domain. However, there would
> still remain the issue of adding rights for users in differing domains.
>
>
>>these mailboxes via the protocol (do they show up as a separate shared
>>namespace?).
>
>
> Hmm.. That's a tough one - could argue for having them all under the same
> shared namespace however, then you (might) have possible name collisions.
> Maybe prefix -all- shared folders with the domain name (including the default
> domain) ?
>
> For example, using the example I gave up above, a user logging into imap would
> see the following folder structure:
>
> INBOX
> ...
> share
> ddfoundation.org
> public
> xaraya.com
> public-dev
> users
> curiousa
>
>
From: Carl P. Corliss Bugzilla-Id: 2105 Version: 2.2.x Owner: Ken Murchison