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Subject: Re: Fake-ID
From: Manar Hussain <manar @ ivision . co . uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:51:25 +0000
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <v04003a21b1197e0929d4@[207.167.80.70]>
References: <3.0.5.32.19980225064249.008c4720@stingray.ivision.co.uk><070701bd419e$a7de3dc0$1269f0cf@babylon.instantweb.com>

>Or you can, with things like majordomo, set up a list with ZERO valid
>posting addresses, and used the "Approved:" password routines to send
>messages. Anything sent to the address without the password is bounced
>to you. that's something that you might be able to use if you can't go
>mucking with aliases and Received lines...

This is also handy as it is an easy pretty sure fire way to prevent mail
loops - we tend to do this for all announce lists.

>> The best way is to use pgp but alas is not well supported by mailing list
>> systems.
>
>Some day. We hope. At least SOME kind of decent signature.

Well I suspect there'll likely to be a lot more of this sort of thing about
soon so hopefully sooner rather than later - for example, pgp is used to
good effect by the UK DNS regsitrar (Nominet) for us to be able to maintain
DNS/whois information ...

Manar


References:
  • Re: Fake-ID
    From: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk>
  • Fake-ID
    From: "Siamak Farah" <sia@infostreet.com>
  • Re: Fake-ID
    From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com>
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