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Re: Message awaiting authentication
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:33:28 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Neb Okla wrote:
> I don't want to use the web client. It's clunky.
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> With NNTP, I can read posts offline, choose my NNTP client (thus finding a
> UI that is right for me), etc.
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> Thanks for the info though. Now I know that throwing $10 at lugnet won't
> fix the problem.
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> I skimmed the discussions below.
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> I also know that Lugnet members have a username and password. One would
> wonder then why the NNTP service simply doesn't require a user to login?
Replying to this, because I haven't actually seen anyone bring up one of Todd's
original reasons(1):
NNTP authentication does not prevent spoofing your ID for any given message, it
just allows or prevents access to the server. Some [expletive deleted] person
who was spoofing ID's (via NNTP, if I recall, but I might be mistaken) is the
reason authentication became necessary in the first place. Lugnet operated on a
trust system until that trust was violated. Sucks for the rest of us, but there
ya go.
James
1: http://news.lugnet.com/admin/suggestions/?n=642
...top hit in a search of the admin newsgroups for "Lehman password NNTP", BTW
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Thanks for the link. I like this part, "I'd like to revisit this in a month or two... --Todd" So maybe this is a valid topic for discussion. Anyhow, I don't know why I didn't just do the search myself. Laziness I suppose. I'm sorry, I swear (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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