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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 04:02:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Brad Hamilton writes:
> > 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.
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> 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.
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 authenticate. You could mail such a bitmap, and make the user
type the string in the body of the reply, or something.
But you've already heard my views on this whole authentication thing.
Regards
ROSCO
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| Hello Ross, hello everybody, (...) Can one of you set me straight: I assume the attacker has no access to my email account. How could he, then, automate an email reply I have to send in order to make my post valid? As for a minimum amount of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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