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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 02:52:09 GMT
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Hi Todd -
I'd also like to thank you for this. Now LUGNET is more secure.
I do want to continue to voice the concerns a few others have had here
though. I also use a newsreader 90% of the time to post, and its an
inconvenience. It would be great if you could come up with a solution to
make it easier to post via newsreader, whether it be any of the suggestions
(or all, each being an option) - authenticating for a lot of messages at
once, etc.
The big thing here (and I know you realize it) is that this measure, though
necessary, ultimately damages the community. While we're more secure from
attackers, as people have mentioned, it effects their posting frequency. I
hope something like this doesn't stifle LUGNET. It would be a shame if it did.
I don't want to rain on the parade - I'm very happy we're more secure here -
but I do want that concern of mine to be known. Thanks for putting the time
into this for us. I hate to admit it, but I don't think our attacker was a
complete failure here - he gave us a real blow by forcing this to be put in
place, not to mention his vitriolic posts.
-Tim
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) I think that's a concern we all share, including Todd. I know that he has been very concerned about that every time the issue has come up in the past. What we have to do is work towards a system which is as painless as possible, which does not (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) It would be nice if each NNTP message could carry its own authentication in some simple software-independent solution. One way that might work (for LUGnet members anyway) would be to search the message body for the string (say): (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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