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Subject: 
Re: Authenticating Posts is a real Pain
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Date: 
Mon, 13 May 2002 19:24:58 GMT
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Let me also second this.  I often view Lugnet while at work, and I cannot
always get my home email, so posting through a newsreader is an exercise in
futility because my post won't even show up until a day later.

Even when I do post from home and can authenticate, it often takes hours for
that authentication email to arrive, and hours more before the message is
then posted.


Bill




In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Stonestreet writes:
Its a great disencentive when using a Newsreader to post to Lugnet that
I have to:

wait to recieve an email,
reply to the email,
click in the email,
type an "x",
que and send the email

For every single post I make in Lugnet.

My newsreader can send a password just like the web interface. Isn't
that enough?

Please consider changing this so that I can send messages from my
Newsreader without having to jump through these hoops all the time.

Maybe authenticate for the first post or two, but once identity has been
established it should be turned off.

People use newsreaders because it is cleaner and faster than cludgy web
interfaces - authentication concels out all the advantages.

David Stonestreet



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  Re: Authenticating Posts is a real Pain
 
(...) We do need a better way to authenticate but unfortunately, the NNTP password system just doesn't do what is necessary. I haven't noticed too much lag, though every once in a while, an authentication e-mail never arrives (Dan sent me an e-mail (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Authenticating Posts is a real Pain
 
Its a great disencentive when using a Newsreader to post to Lugnet that I have to: wait to recieve an email, reply to the email, click in the email, type an "x", que and send the email For every single post I make in Lugnet. My newsreader can send a (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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