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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:55:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Frank Filz writes:

A followup thought to this - provide a "confirm my posts" link to the
web interface when you are logged on. This would allow use of NNTP to
post (I much prefer it due to a variety of interface issues, including
size of the area to type the message in), but skip waiting for the
e-mail to confirm.

Wouldn't that allow a determined spoofer to wait till it was obvious that
someone known to be a member was logged in (say if he saw a flurry of posts
from you in .pirate within a few min of each other) and then spoof as you,
at least as long as you remained logged on and active?

Maybe I'm not following your suggestion, though

++Lar



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  Re: E-mail authentication during posting
 
(...) My idea was provide a link to a place where I can more easily confirm a bunch of messages, perhaps on my login screen or something. In any case, you would only be able to get to the pending messages for the user your browser is logged into. (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: E-mail authentication during posting
 
(...) A followup thought to this - provide a "confirm my posts" link to the web interface when you are logged on. This would allow use of NNTP to post (I much prefer it due to a variety of interface issues, including size of the area to type the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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