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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:39:23 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org/stopspammers/
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > It's that second part that's tricky. The first part doesn't help, because
> > once logged in as anybody, you can post as anybody else.
> Do we have to worry that much about that? I think the primary concern is
> to have a reasonable way to block posting by unauthorized folks. If you
> abuse your priviledges, your NNTP ID/password would be revoked.
But it has to be easy to create a new account -- otherwise, new people would
be scared off. So having one of those revoked isn't very meaningful.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) Do we have to worry that much about that? I think the primary concern is to have a reasonable way to block posting by unauthorized folks. If you abuse your priviledges, your NNTP ID/password would be revoked. (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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