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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: broken gateway (fidonet?)
Message-ID: <yZNq416w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:15:09 GMT
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karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
> Nonsense.  The question was how to recognize bad articles, not how
> to handle them when they're found.
> 
> The mangled articles from FIDO have perfectly valid headers.
> 
> An automatic solution would require maintenance of a history system
> with some memory of the contents of articles, not just of the message
> ID and date.  Or would simply exclude all traffic from FIDOnet.

Barring the use of some sort of public-key cryptosystem, I think you'll have
trouble coming up with any sort of method which will prevent some random
gateway from re-writing articles into perfectly valid but
differently-addressed articles.


mathew