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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:GF8KyH.H8w@lugnet.com... (...) not (...) area) (...) sign (...) are (...) area so (...) I would love this. I am a paid up Lugnet member (no pack yet, guess there's a backlog), and I love (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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(...) Now I like this idea. There should be some real benefits to membership and this could be one if it can be worked out. I realize Todd might not like this because it could be considered exclusionary but I also think $10 is a pretty low price to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Email Authentication - Why not make it optional?
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I just thought of something. Todd, do you have any stats on NNTP usage? Can you tell how many members vs non-members use NNTP? If the number of non-members using NNTP is low, maybe just make NNTP a "privilege" of membership. I'm against the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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I agree that it is time consumeing, as someone else wrote - I too write them offline and then dail in and send them. It is cheaper and gives one time to think about the answer. I also saves money. Now, there is a simple way around this - in Outlook (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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I just thought I would throw in my 2 cents in support of the changes even though most of my thoughts have been covered. I will try and keep this to what hasn't been said (or at least I havn't seen posted yet). (...) First let me begin by saying I am (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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One idea I had that may or may not be a good one is this: What about having subsequent authentication emails put multiple authentication numbers into the URL if other posts from the same user are awaiting authentication? This way it would be (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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OK, it's not really NNTP, but I couldn't find anywhere better to ask. Todd, any chance us web-posters could get a cancel button? Like you know, if I wanna obliterate that post I didn't read before I hit the dreaded "Post" button? I was thinking (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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...it forces people to think at least a couple of seconds before they post - that's gotta be good! And Todd's even stuck a "let me think about it" button on the authentication page! Maybe it's not that bad after all! ROSCO (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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(...) If you automate the reponse to the authentication e-mail, all I have to do is spoof your identity as Mad Hatter has done several times. Because the authentication gets sent to your email regardless of where I post from, and your response is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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