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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)
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(...) 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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(...) Not currently, no. Let me think about IP-based authentication for a while. (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) What Dan said, plus I think IP addresses could be spoofed... ++Lar (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) but by doing that, you'll be breaking the whole authentication process - If I know that you have such a rule that auto authorizes posts by you, I can spoof posts as you with no problem... your auto-reply will authorize them without (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I would definitely read it. Possibly post every once in a while (not just me2/oh wow posts either!). I'm hoping on making some sculptures, like the Little Prince, maybe a dolphin, a baby, other stuff... someday when I have enough pieces? ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I agree. If there's a ton of mosaic traffic, there could always be lugnet.build.sculpture.mosaic - but that seems unlikely to be needed any time soon. Todd, what do you think? --Bill. (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Ditto. I have a static IP as well. But I think it's possible people may post from more than one place, so if this is done, it should be allowed to enter more than one IP address, or to allow the authentication mechanism to work if you are not (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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(...) Todd, I know you didn't ask for suggestions and probably don't want any, but I'm going to throw one out anyway. Would it be possible to concatenate the confirmation messages for a given time-period into one message? It would remove the instant (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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