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Re: I'm back...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 27 May 2001 18:37:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> Mike Stanley writes:
> > Why not do this:
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> > Shut off posting by mail completely. Let people read, but not post.
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> Hey! What about those of us who use email to read and post? Makes it
> easier to keep a record of all your posts. It does look like it might be
> difficult to authenticate email posts, though.
Is the usual method easy to fake out, then?
By "the usual method" I mean the system we used back when I was an
undergraduate, where every post to an all-campus distribution list would cause
an automated response to the originating e-mail, which would have to be
responded to for the message to be posted. Assuming the automatic
authentication e-mail includes some unique random code, I would assume that
someone trying to spoof the system would have to not only fake the e-mail
source, but also intercept the authentication reply. I assume this security
measure is standard practice, but I don't really know anything about computer
security. . .
TWS Garrison
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| (...) Sounds like something that may very well be a standard option in list management/distrobution software, but may not be applicable, without additional coding, to the method Todd uses to take posts from email and zap them into the news server. (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Hey! What about those of us who use email to read and post? Makes it easier to keep a record of all your posts. It does look like it might be difficult to authenticate email posts, though. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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