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| | | (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: Message awaiting authentication —Don Heyse
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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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| | | | | | Re: Message awaiting authentication —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Todd Months aren't always under 31 days each. (...) Nobody said it wasn't! Rereading what Todd said in that post I don't see how a standard NNTP client would necessarily supply the authentication stuff so I'm not sure I see how it would help. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Message awaiting authentication —Don Heyse
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| | | | | (...) Been a bit too busy to reply to this, but... Once again you're selfishly thinking about the client side. No! No! No! While you could run this sort of thing on the client, the right place is on the lugnet server. Now I don't have much (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Message awaiting authentication —Neb Okla
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| | | | | | "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:Hp839B.8zy@lugnet.com... (...) Or just automatically for a time that logarithmically increases with each spoofed post. Oh, and spoofed posts would be rejected too. That would teach (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Message awaiting authentication —Neb Okla
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| | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Hp1Cn5.IBp@lugnet.com... (...) how a (...) I'm It's called "Secure Password Authentication". It's supported by Microsoft clients at least. Solving this authentication problem for 97% (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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