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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 20:55:19 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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| (...) 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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