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Re: Lugnet's security (Was: Re: What the F.......)
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 05:28:57 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
> Richard Marchetti <BlueOfNoon@aol.com> wrote:
> > Ummm...Can't we just let Todd do his thing and assume that he knows what • he is
> > doing? No offense, Dan, but that was a strange thing to do -- especially • in
> > light of the RTL post from (I hope) an imposter. Its one thing to have an
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> He did post it in the test newsgroup. And it _was_ just a test.
I've thought about this many times in the past, and realize no test is at
all necessary. When I post to Lugnet from work, I post using my Mindspring
userid (which is what I've registered with Lugnet), but the post presumably
doesn't even travel through a single Mindspring computer. So every time I am
posting from work, I am essentially forging my post (actually, even when
posting from home I am essentially forging my post, I have never ever been
logged onto Mindspring.com).
The forgery issue is one of the reasons my sig at work includes my work
e-mail address, just to make it clear that while the communication comes
from ibm.com with a mindspring.com e-mail address, the communication is
acknowledged as coming from my ID at IBM.
The good thing here is that the logs indicate the actual IP address that a
post comes from, so if something outrageous gets posted as a forgery, there
is a chance Todd can track down who posted it, and at a minimum can clearly
identify that it did not come from a legitimate host for that person to be
using (though that does not stop the person from trying to fake a forgery so
they can say something and then deny it).
Frank
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