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(...) is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good solution for all (most?) users - users who like posting from multiple machines, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) PGP keys are unrelated to nntp - and they could be used to verify that a user is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) true that that's only for the web interface. However, I don't know the distribution of users between web/nntp/smtp. Do you have any data? (...) Authenticated posting only makes sure you're allowde to access the server - it does not (without (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Really? I had kind of assumed that the web interface was the primary interface used... Although my guess is that that's changed since LUGNET's inception when it was most likely primarily NNTP... I dunno... (...) I think the point was mentioned (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's only if you are using the WEB interface. I think most of us use the NNTP or Email interface. My NEWS reader supports Authenticated posting, can we use that to prove who we are and not have to verify each post? We are loosing a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Firstly, let me move this to where it belongs... lugnet.admin.general Secondly, if you are a member of LUGNET, you can sign in and you do not have to wait to verify posts. Jude FUT .admin.general (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's what the lugnet.off-topic.test and lugnet.off-topic.test.foo are for :) post a message to one, with a followup set for the other :) HTH, Dan (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thank you Selcuk. Think there would be a problem with me testing it first? -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Selçuk Göre" <ssgore@superonline.com> wrote in message news:3B7384AA.22C97C...ine.com... (...) group', (...) 0x800CCCA9 (...) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Nicole, In Outlook Express message window (where you type your new message or reply to a message) click on the menu "View", then click on "All headers". Then you will see a new address line entry, which labeled as "Followup-To". I hope this would (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It just gives me a list of groups to post to. -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "LUGNET Admin" <suz@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GHtrGt.GA0@lugnet.com... (...) addressed to (...) few (...) would say (...) area. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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