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    Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Daniel Crichton
   "Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:GF5uAo.5x1@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) That's quite a neat idea, but as you say prone to risk of revealing the password. I still think that using NNTP authentication will work, esp. if it (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Frank Filz
   (...) Some tricks could be played to make it more secure. One would be to scan the message for the user's password and if it found it, but it didn't seem to be part of an authenticator, bounce the message. It could also use a fuzzy match for the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Dan Boger
     (...) you can't have the server scan for the users password in the message, since passwords arn't usually saved anywhere on the server at all. So to check for the password, each word, or combination of chars actually (since space can be part of the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: E-mail authentication during posting Todd Lehman
   (...) Inline authentication is used with success in some mailing list packages for moderating lists, but what worries me most about inline authentication is how easy it would be to accidentally cc someone when posting via e-mail (for example, if you (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Horst Lehner
   Hello Todd, hello everybody, (...) ^^^...^^^ Or if someone is using Outlook Express, which unfortunately defaults to email response when hitting "reply" in the toolbar ... :-( I have been following the discussion about inline authentication for a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 

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