[OT] Ty Tower needs to go.

Saaa empty at needmail.com
Thu Mar 6 04:22:26 PST 2008



> Sadly, I suspect the answer is nothing. Banning an individual won't
> help, because individuals are identified solely by the "From" field in
> an email header, which is easily faked. Thus, a banned individual
> could just invent a new identity and carry on, and an innocent
> individual could be impersonated and banned unjustly.
>
> Other forums deal with these problems in different ways, but the most
> common is to require posters to register using username/password
> credentials. This doesn't stop anyone from assuming a new identity
> every time they get banned, but it does prevent impersonation. I don't
> think that would work here though: There is no practical way (that I
> know of) to strengthen poster credentials on a newsgroup.

X-Trace in the header is an easy way to check for impersonation.
Of course dynamic ips and using different computers make it less then 
perfect
but look at the ip from Ty and Trevor > same.
Or doesn't it work that way?







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