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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) Well, I'd say you could switch. And I'd rank the inconvenience to the (probably small number of) people who do post via email as much less significant than the increased security and authenticity the LUGNET community as a whole would gain. (...) (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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| (...) 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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| In lugnet.admin.general, John Rudy writes:> (...) <this is the REAL 'SOC' Scott O. Chambers here...> I really do not mind him spoofing my name, I am glad he stopped using Jaco's - My name is not well known around here, so to me its not that big of a (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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