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Re: I'm back...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 27 May 2001 19:24:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Thomas Garrison writes:
> 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. . .
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. Could be, but I don't know.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I had the choice between verifying
each and every post manually by following some link and/or responding to a
verification method or choosing to use straight nntp and a reader like Free
Agent or Gravity, I think I'd just switch to doing it the nntp way.
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| (...) Are there any verification things that are part of the official NNTP protocol? If not, then anyone who uses a standard old newsreader could end up being out of luck. I use 'gnus' inside Gnu emacs, for example. I also have absolutely no idea (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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, (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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