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Re: Someone's at it again with SPAM
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 26 May 2000 21:43:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> If the emails are shown only to members, the only people who can spam other
> are lugnet memebers. I'm sure Todd could just flag any such spammer so he
> will NOT see emails, just like any non-member.
> No?
Email addresses are a fundamental element of the NNTP & SMTP header paradigms.
Although (in theory) it would be very easy to 'hide' email addresses from
non-members via the web interface, it's much less practical via SMTP and
almost completely impractical via NNTP (since the NNTP server here does no
user authentication (NNTP authentication can be horrible mess for users)).
--Todd
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 | | Re: Someone's at it again with SPAM
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| (...) First of all, in this case, it seems like the spammer just replied to any message he could find in lugnet... As for the spam going to the newsgroups, it can (and it does) only if the poster has gone through the mail setup procedure. Otherwise, (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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