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Re: Email Authentication - Why not make it optional?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:25:10 GMT
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:37:52AM +0000, Daniel Crichton wrote:
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> "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message
> news:20010620120544.B4278@peeron.com...
> > this has been brought up before... however, NNTP authentication only makes
> > sure you are allowed to log in to the server, it doesn't enforce you not
> > posting as anyone else....
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> So why not have the NNTP server check the id and password against the name
> and email address in the message and if they don't match either refuse the
> message or switch to email authentication?
that would be a good option, if it was possible. From my (limited)
understanding of NNTP servers, once they authorize you to post, they do
not do any more checks. Being open-source, of course, means we could
potentially modify the server to do just that, but that might mean quite
a bit of work... I believe Todd has mentioned that option, but is trying
to find other ways first...
:)
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Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
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| "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20010621072509....ron.com... (...) makes (...) not (...) name (...) the (...) Todd must have already modified the server to handle checking the sender name and email address against those registered (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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