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Posting to Lugnet Was: US dollars. Which bank should I rob?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:14:45 GMT
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This will be even worse for those of us who connect and post with our little
PDA's, which aren't even capable of going to a website, just to hit
'confirm'. I do ALL of my lugnet reading and posting via email, often with
my little Newton while on the road, and this is going to suck.
I can't see why this same confirmation system needs to apply to email
postings as well, since it's much harder to spoof an email, and can be
easily back-tracked to confirm identity.
A third system, which I'd prefer, would be to electronically 'sign' our
postings. These could be checked by lugnet using our public key, and
seamlessly confirm our identity, without having to load that web browser.
Later,
David Drew
On 18/6/01 7:56 PM, "Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote:
> > However, we NNTP-using members will doubtless find it a pain in the bum.
> >
> > This will be my first posting since the advent of verification.
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> It is a pain-in-the-bum! To send a message via NNTP, you have to visit a WWW
> site to confirm it. This is a real nuisance if you compose messages off-line
> and then briefly connect to send them. Now you have to hang around to get an
> email sent back giving you a URL which you go to confirm it.
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> I'm all in favour of not having fraudulent postings on LUGnet, but this
> method seems to be a considerable inconvenience to the vast majority of
> people as the result of the misbehaviour of a few.
>
> Kerry
>
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| (...) It is a pain-in-the-bum! To send a message via NNTP, you have to visit a WWW site to confirm it. This is a real nuisance if you compose messages off-line and then briefly connect to send them. Now you have to hang around to get an email sent (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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