Females in the community.

Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Mar 25 17:57:55 PDT 2016


On 25/03/2016 19:44, Walter Bright wrote:
>> No, there is another shortcoming of NNTP that is innate: it doesn't
>> require an
>> account / authentication, anyone can post without registering, emails
>> accounts
>> can be spoofed, etc.
>
> It's actually pretty easy to add a field with a crypto hash in it, and
> have the NNTP server reject postings without the hash, and then supply
> the hash only with validated account creation.
>
> There's a scheme out there that does something like this for PGP key
> signing.

Yeah, but how many NNTP clients would support that? Certainly one could 
build this feature on top of NNTP, but then it would not be pure NNTP 
anymore, and I guess it would break many clients, no?

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