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Re: Are we all too nice?
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:11:46 GMT
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:19:51PM +0000, Eric Kingsley wrote:
Todd,  Do you have a problem with this?  I think I do.

I've pointed this out a while ago...  anyone can post as anyone else...
and there's no real way of stopping it without requireing you be logged in
(if you're a member) or some sort of password.  And that's only via the
web interface - I'm not sure, but I bet forged emails are even harder to
detect/stop automatically....  same for nntp...

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