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Re: From-line registration?
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Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:04:06 GMT
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Be sure to allow someone to have SEVERAL email addresses registered.
Sometimes you don't have a lot of control of your From address and it
can change depending on the machine setup (for some reason I have no
clue, my email sometimes comes as from @eskimo.com and sometimes
@mail.eskimo.com
In College, I had the options of:
@venus.tamu.edu, @summa.tamu.edu, @rigel.tamu.edu, @(two more I can
not remember off head right now)
Sarah Heacock
sarah@eskimo.com
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:52:00 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:
>
> Some people seem to think it is cute to put garbage or ridiculous things
> into their "From:" lines (in place of their names and/or e-mail addresses).
>
> My gut instinct says that as more and more (and younger and younger) people
> discover this resource, these forms of abuse are likely to increase rather
> than decrease.
>
> The X-Real-Life-Name header is nice, and it certainly helps a lot in terms
> of identities, but it doesn't prevent stunts like this:
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> From: "¹qªi¯º¦~" <no-one@wants.spam.com>
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> or this:
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> From: "Ickna (Ickna of doom, Ickna of the future, Mega super duper ultra
> power cyborg Ickna ranger trooper man guy dude)" <ickna@nospamaol.com>
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> I wonder if it would be best to require "From:"-line registration via a web
> page prior to accepting posts from someone.
>
>
> Here is my proposal:
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> 1. New users go to a web page (similar to the current Setup page) and
> enter the following information into a form:
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> - real-life name
> - nickname/pseudonym
> - real e-mail address
> - spamblock e-mail address
> - organization
> - location
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> 2. The server stores this information a database of identities which are
> pending approval.
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> 3. Each submission is reviewed (typically within 24 hours) and either
> approved or rejected. An e-mail is sent after the review has been
> made.
>
> 4. If approved, then from that point forward, the newsserver accepts posts
> with "From:" lines matching
>
> "n" <e>
> n <e>
> e (n)
>
> where 'n' is either the real-life name or the nickname, and 'e' is
> either the real e-mail address or the spamblock e-mail address. The
> X-Real-Life-Name header is still added automatically as before.
>
> 5. The newsserver rejects all "From:" lines that it does not recognize.
>
>
> It is expected that 99% or more of submissions would be accepted. If
> someone is rejected and they don't like it, well...they can go complain in
> RTL or something and see if other people think it was unfair.
>
> --Todd
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| (...) Did news posts show up that way too? I've seen that pretty commonly on mail, but I don't think I've seen that happen on news postings, have you? I wonder if the From-line comparison and indexing should ignore host names inside a domain just in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: From-line registration?
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| (...) That's just poor management on your college's part. You should have had a central address you would both "come from" and have mail sent to. There are 3 main Unix boxes here on campus - larry, moe, and curly. I can telnet to any one of them and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Some people seem to think it is cute to put garbage or ridiculous things into their "From:" lines (in place of their names and/or e-mail addresses). My gut instinct says that as more and more (and younger and younger) people discover this resource, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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