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(...) "And then I realized that not making sense not to, the message posting could not not NOT make sense, so I didn't not post it." :) Sorry, just being...goofy. I wouldn't have posted this message, but... (...) I think it has a lot more to do with (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This has been proposed before - however, authuntication is not so much about protecting the users, it's more about protecting the community. Even if you don't care that someone is posting in your name, when that allows people who have been (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Maybe there could be some kind of user preference thing where you choose whether you want to authenticate messages or something? Though I don't know much about the Usenet network, so I really don't know how difficult it'd be to program that... (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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well, 2 things 1) we have to trust Todd that if the auth hurts the site, he'll remove it. If it drives away posts then its not worth having, merely because someone once forged a few messages. (so what anyway? its ez enough to find out that they are (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I believe that people have looked through here: (URL) found that there hasn't been any drop in posting frequency. I've not graphed it out myself or anything. Besides... hasn't this been in place since... oh... May or June or something? I (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh yeah, good point, I forgot about summer and vacationing being a factor, but I still think that there has been a slight decrease in posting frequency due to the authentication, we'll just have to wait a while and see what happens I geuss. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) AFAIK there has not been a drop in traffic, at least, not a significant one. I think that we also need to keep in mind that it's summer (at least here in the US) and a lot of people are taking vacations... and that not everyone uses the SMTP (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I've noticed this alot too, I've noticed that alot of people have slowed down or even stopped replying to other's creation's probably due to the fact of the authentication. Some people probably figure 'why should I waste the extra time replying to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm not trying to derail Paul's thread or anything but I have noticed less posts from certain regulars as well. I'm still posting but I feel I've dropped a bit. I actually almost didn't post this message and then figured that it didn't make any (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya, this is somewhat of a loophole (but a known one, and mentioned when the authentication mechanism was announced) and it needs closing. On the other hand, if someone were to try this, their Member ID would appear in the NNTP headers of the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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