abusive changes of person handles (protect your maintainer!)

I AGREE !!!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet <woeber at cc.univie.ac.at>
To: <joao at ripe.net>
Cc: <lir-wg at ripe.net>; <db-wg at ripe.net>; <woeber at cc.univie.ac.at>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: abusive changes of person handles (protect your maintainer!)


>   Hi Joao!
> 
> >There are two issues here:
> >- The use of very weak protection methods (NONE and MAIL-FROM) (see *).
> 
>   wrt the "see *": 
>   I think they do have a point in principle.
>   In reality (for many individuals, I suppose :-) it's still more
>   staright-forward to fake a mail-from header than reverse-engineer a
>   crypted password string in itself.
> 
>   However, given the fact that many operatinal environments these days
>   require mail to be shipped multi-hop, the risk of disclosing the
>   (clear text) password is greater than we might want to believe...
> 
> >Would the community see this change in behaviour as a good thing?
> 
>   Definitely!
> 
>   Wilfried.
>