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Re: NewbieQ: Authentication on lugnet news
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lugnet.people.newbie
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Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:33:15 GMT
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In lugnet.people.newbie, David Schwanke writes:
> Is there any way to have my client authenticate to the lugnet news server
> using my lugnet membership login and password instead of having to manualy
> authorize each individual post.
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> Do the regular members that post a lot really confirm each and every post
> manually?
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> (Or was that just for my first post and the rest are authed? (This is only
> my second post. :) )
If you are logged in via the web interface, and post via the web interface,
you don't have to authenticate. But, if you are posting via email or NNTP
news, you have to authenticate. This is because we've had problems in the
past with people abusing the insecure nature of NNTP and email, spoofing
others' identities and doing serious damage to the climate here on LUGNET
with that. Unfortunately, one bad apple who couldn't be trusted ruined it
for everyone.
I've adjusted to using the web interface so I don't have to authenticate. I
know some people who still do use email or NNTP, and have to authenticate
each post.
-Tim
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| Being the geek that I am I decided to let the computer be the solution. So last night I wrote a vba script that when run on incoming authentication messages will automatically authenticate them and send them back to the server. You can use the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.people.newbie)
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| | NewbieQ: Authentication on lugnet news
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| Is there any way to have my client authenticate to the lugnet news server using my lugnet membership login and password instead of having to manualy authorize each individual post. Do the regular members that post a lot really confirm each and every (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.people.newbie)
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