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Re: I'm back...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 25 May 2001 21:39:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Shiri Dori wrote:
> > Actually B is an incorrect observation. Matthew took Todd's name and posted
> > in his name. Todd then cancelled the post through the server.
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> yikes... what I'd like to see is a setup that we can use pgp signed
> messages, to athunticate posts... but that would require a fair bit of
> coding, and it doesn't seem that Todd has much time now...
Authenticating posting means putting security against all the mechanisms
used to post, nntp, mail, and web, no?
It might take less time and effort to provide a way to web cancel posts if
you authenticate that you are who you say you are. This would allow Jacob
(and no one else) to cancel false Jacob posts, etc. At the same time, I
would then disallow nntp cancelling.
This is not as good an overall solution but may give better cost\benefit.
++Lar
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GDwut6.CuA@lugnet.com... (...) Also, paid members should be able to enter their confirmation code for their news post setup into something that will associate that posting email (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Why not do this: Shut off posting by mail completely. Let people read, but not post. Require authentication via nntp same as web (this should be simple - in fact it should be a toggle to turn it on, then an option to pull the username & (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) With only guessing at the way lugnet works internally, I can't say for sure. But here's one way things might work: A post is accepted, in some form - web, smtp or nntp. This post can then be processed, before actually being moved to the (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) yikes... what I'd like to see is a setup that we can use pgp signed messages, to athunticate posts... but that would require a fair bit of coding, and it doesn't seem that Todd has much time now... :/ Dan (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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