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Subject: 
Re: Message awaiting authentication
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:43:37 GMT
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> wrote in message
news:Hp839B.8zy@lugnet.com...

passwords before it goes about forwarding things.  Now here comes
the tricky part.  Cache the username and password so that whenever
a new post comes in to the proxy, it can rewrite the header to undo
any username spoofing.

Or just automatically for a time that logarithmically increases with each
spoofed post.  Oh, and spoofed posts would be rejected too.  That would
teach people.


Then forward the post, and (I like this part)
automatically send a lugnet authentication email with the cached
username and password.

If you set up the NNTP server right, you don't need authentication emails at
all.



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  Re: Message awaiting authentication
 
(...) 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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