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Re: posting varification, ug!
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:26:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dean Husby writes:
> That's only if you are using the WEB interface. I think most of us use the
> NNTP or Email interface.
Really? I had kind of assumed that the web interface was the primary
interface used... Although my guess is that that's changed since LUGNET's
inception when it was most likely primarily NNTP... I dunno...
> My NEWS reader supports Authenticated posting, can we use that to prove who we
> are and not have to verify each post? We are loosing a lot of posters
> because of this...
I think the point was mentioned that NNTP authentication *worked* but that
once you were authenticated, you could then post as anyone? I dunno how it
works, but that was my understanding. I don't know how much I heard about
PGP keys either (or if they're related I suppose)
DaveE
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| (...) PGP keys are unrelated to nntp - and they could be used to verify that a user is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting varification, ug!
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| (...) That's only if you are using the WEB interface. I think most of us use the NNTP or Email interface. My NEWS reader supports Authenticated posting, can we use that to prove who we are and not have to verify each post? We are loosing a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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