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From: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Stopping unauthorized checkgroups messages?
Message-ID: <455@galaxia.zone1.com>
Date: 30 Mar 88 05:09:05 GMT
References: <1231@cos.com> <1916@rayssd.ray.com>
Reply-To: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Organization: Dave's Very Own Personal System
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After I posted my original note I realized that checking the Approved: line
isn't going to gain me anything since the article in question had a line that
said it was approved by "spaf".  Maybe if I check both the Approved line and
the From line.  That should catch all the accidental postings.  I think that
something as potentially dangerous as a checkgroups message should also be
required to have a valid Distribution line.  I am going to keep working on
it until I come up with something that will prevent most of the common
mistakes but still allow a single person to easily administor a group of
machines.  Since there is no easy way to prevent forgeries I am not going
to be concerned about them.
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David H. Brierley
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