• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On January 3, 2005

  • Filed under Internet

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Authentication blues

Why do mailing lists authenticate posters based on email address? In this day of “permanent” forwarding addresses (of which I have about four), I would think that the return address would be an imprecise attribute to use to validate the sender’s identity.
(Background: I’m unable to post to a neighborhood mailing list because it only accepts [...]