[Dev] Canoga Security Design

[Ben Laurie]

Wes Felter wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2004, at 12:55 PM, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood wrote:
> 
>> Wes Felter wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 2, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Chih-Chao Lam wrote:
>>> > [...] Will we support filter sharing in Canoga?
>>>
>>> I don't think anyone has ever done this, so what's the use case?
>>
>>
>> This is something that I'm pushing for.  Filters are very useful for 
>> grouping messages together, but they are a little tricky (especially 
>> if you're not good at formal procedural logic).    Bonnie Nardi, in _A 
>> Small Matter of Programming_, found that lots of people *use* 
>> spreadsheet macros but that very few people *write* them -- people 
>> share them a lot.   I think, in a similar way, that filters would be 
>> more useful to more people if you could share them.
>> For example, only one person needs to write a filter to tag all 
>> messages from inside mycompany.com with the category "Internal".  Only 
>> one person on a mailing list needs to write a filter for recognizing 
>> that mailing list...
> 
> 
> OK, I guess I didn't really understand what "filter sharing in Canoga" 
> meant. I think *of course* you should allow filters to be shared, but 
> maybe Chandler itself shouldn't have features for doing the sharing. Put 
> an import/export feature into Chandler and let people take care of 
> distributing and finding filters out of band. Then the security problem 
> is reduced to the same as any software: don't install it if you don't 
> trust it.

That's a pretty sad place to end up at for a project with Chandler's 
ambitions...

Cheers,

Ben.

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