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Subject: 
Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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Date: 
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:39:23 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.orgSPAMLESS
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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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  Re: E-mail authentication during posting
 
(...) 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. (25 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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