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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Tue, 19 Jun 2001 02:10:48 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Brad Hamilton writes:
> This is really annoying and is impacting my posting frequency.
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> 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?
Not currently, no.
Let me think about IP-based authentication for a while.
> If that won't work, how about making it so we can just reply to the email
> instead of going to the web page. I think I could create an auto-reply
> rule or something in my mail program that would make this automatic.
This I can definitely do, but it will have to be at least somewhat
interactive so that someone doesn't accidentally cause a message to get
posted simply by replying. For example, you would probably have to reply
and then put an 'x' in a box or some other way of marking which of the
choices (post or delete) that you want to apply.
--
Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com>
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) Personally, I am not a big fan of doing anything IP based. There are far too many problems. AOL dials, multiple computers (I regularly use three myself) and many other issues have made me decide against this method time and time again. <END (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) And it'd have to be something that can't be easily automated by the poster - this defeats the scheme. I've seen some web pages which generate a bitmap containing a string which isn't easily scanned, and asks you to type the string in to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| What if the email message that was sent contained HTML, so rather than having to reply or go to an URL, those of us with HTML capable email clients could just click a submit button? The email could have the same choices the confirmation page has. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| 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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