From: don-aitken@freeuk.com
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:35:20 -0600, "Vanguard"
wrote:
>"Don Aitken" wrote in message
>news:jn8i2256nr89ujn9ejka2avfip7c0jplav@4ax.com...
>> Actually, there is nothing to prevent anybody adding the Approved:
>> header to their own posts, except that the commoner newsreaders don't
>> to custom headers. However, forged approvals are regarded as a serious
>> matter, and will lose you your account with any decent NSP.
>
>Holy cow! I would've thought that the Approved header would only be
>usable through the moderator's account at the NNTP server. That way,
>their e-mail address in the Approved header would have to match the one
>recorded for their NNTP account (or maybe the Approved header got added
>but the moderator had to go through their own account which had the
>admin privilege to post messages without approval).
>
I'm not sure that's even possible. News is a distributed system, and
posts can be injected anywhere. A news account is a news account -
there are no specially privileged ones. And most moderation is done by
teams rather than single individuals; they are unlikely to be all
using the same server. Remember that virtually all existing news
server software dates from a time when nobody but proper geeks had
access to this stuff. It isn't designed for security, which is why it
is so vulnerable to trolls and wreckers.
>Does the alt.* anarchy have any moderated groups? The list of moderated
>groups that I remember scanning through were for the Big-8 groups.
>
I believe there are some moderated groups in alt.*, but not many, and
people wanting to start new ones are strongly advised against it.
Because there is no "official" source of control messages for alt.*,
you would have to convince all the newsadmins that *your* moderated
version was the one to go with.
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