ietf-nntp Re: NNTP-Posting-Host

Rich Salz rsalz at osf.org
Tue Apr 15 08:46:48 PDT 1997


> >2)	Just to save header creep, how about allowing user at host.name or
> >	user@[ip] as an alternative to NNTP-Posting-User?

You can often verify the client machine much more easily than you
can verify the entity using that machine.  I would rather not see
two items of information, with two different levels of trustability,
intermingled.
	/R$




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