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Re: Email Authentication - Why not make it optional?
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lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general
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Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:09:59 GMT
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Brad you rasie some good points, my take is that if you are being Spoofed
you might not know it untill it's too late and someone has either ruined
your reputaion or you seem to be held in low regard when you post and you
don't know why because some one spoofed you.
It's too bad we just can't go one a merit basis. But alas we do need
protection. I am concerned that the posts will slow down a bit. We may lose
some real time interactivity. I know that my e-mail server sometimes takes a
while to recive new messages. But so far the authentication comes right away.
All I can say is keep up, people don't let this slow us down, thanks Todd
for keeping our best interests at hand.
Eric
In lugnet.admin.nntp, Brad Hamilton writes:
> This email authentication is driving me nuts! A lot of people were already
> timid about posting and now its going to be worse.
>
> Since this has happened, I've seen one reply of the nature "Great - I'm so
> happy you did this!" post and a huge number of "This is such a hassle, why
> are we doing this" posts. Presumably, the one positive post is from the one
> person (or maybe there were two) that had this problem.
>
> Why are we punishing the whole community for a problem that only one or two
> people had? This is even more annoying given that this is the first time
> I've heard about this happening (so presumably, the likilihood of this
> happening again is low as well).
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> Why can't this authentication be an optional feature? Why not let the one
> or two people who are actually worried about being spoofed turn it on and
> let everyone else post without authorization???
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> Why not have a web page where you can toggle your status on/off (perhaps
> generated from a key sent by email)?
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> I would immediately turn mine off and leave it off unless I actually started
> having problems with people stealing my identity (which I think is unlikely
> in the extreme).
>
> I think that the default should be OFF and when you subscribe to LUGNET, you
> get a message saying "Security Warning: We recommend that you turn this on
> if blah blah blah...." I seriously doubt that anyone is going to spoof the
> identity of some new, unknown member.
>
> I personally believe that the spoofing that went on was probably an isolated
> case by one individual. Are we going to let that one attack stifle the life
> out of LUGNET???
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