Why not a private news server?

[gabe]

In a private news server scenario, all messages are posted directly to our server,
no other machines can forward msgs to us, headers cannot be forged, that means we
have a log of IP addresses and can track down spammers ourselves (not that they
will exist anyway).

We could even reply back with an assigned password when someone signs up, thus
requiring a valid e-mail account to receive their password, but I do not think that
would be necessary.

You must not understand what we are talking about.

Squash's post about a private news server not even requiring a uname/pswd and still
not getting any spam sounds correct to me.

Gabe

David Cooley wrote:

>
> Yes, but if they don't respond they don't get to post.  If they do respond,
> then spam, they can be tracked down.  Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite etc all log
> where the connection came from, so the dial up account they use will have a
> record of who was dialed in to that port at that time.
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