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Subject: 
Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 02:12:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Brad Hamilton writes:
This is really annoying and is impacting my posting frequency.

Since I use a cable modem, I'm always posting from the same IP address.  Is
there any way to enter an IP address as "authorized" to be myself?

What Dan said, plus I think IP addresses could be spoofed...

++Lar



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  Re: E-mail authentication during posting
 
(...) IP addresses can easily be spoofed, as long as you don't need an interactive session... as in, if I just need to send an HTTP POST, and don't need to read the reply, I can spoof the source ip with no problem. :/ (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: E-mail authentication during posting
 
This is really annoying and is impacting my posting frequency. Since I use a cable modem, I'm always posting from the same IP address. Is there any way to enter an IP address as "authorized" to be myself? If that won't work, how about making it so (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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