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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 21:39:17 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Frank Filz writes:
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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 message in), but skip waiting for the
> > e-mail to confirm.
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> 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?
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> Maybe I'm not following your suggestion, though
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.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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