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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:50:55 GMT
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What if the email message that was sent contained HTML, so rather than
having to reply or go to an URL, those of us with HTML capable email clients
could just click a submit button?
The email could have the same choices the confirmation page has.
Just an idea.
Bryan Beckwith
"LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message
news:3b2eb402.179717858@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Brad Hamilton writes:
> > This is really annoying and is impacting my posting frequency.
> >
> > Since I use a cable modem, I'm always posting from the same IP address. • Is
> > there any way to enter an IP address as "authorized" to be myself?
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> Not currently, no.
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> Let me think about IP-based authentication for a while.
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> > 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.
>
> --
> Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com>
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| (...) This would help a few (maybe a lot) more people, but some people still use mail clients which don't support HTML, so they would need a text-based solution as well. Probably better to try & get a useable text-based solution first, and add HTML (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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