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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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| | | | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) Not to mention the fact that many businesses and ISP's (Roadrunner for one) use DHCP so peoples IP's can and do change from day to day. I agree with Jake in his view that IP based authentication just won't work. Eric Kingsley (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting — Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I'm not either -- at least not as something that can be relied upon for everyone. (...) Ya, it's fine for short-term login things when mixed with a password, but HTTP proxy servers really complicate the equation. Basically you can't trust the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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