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Re: Events of Tuesday, 27 October 1998.

  • To: Daniel Karrenberg < >
  • From: Wilhelm Buehler < >
  • Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:11:34 +0100
  • Cc: RIPE Local Internet Registries WG < >
  • Reply-to: 
Hi,

Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> 
> I further would like to point out to everyone that we do provide
> authorisation and authentication methods *for more than five years*
> already. Those who used them properly weree not affected by this
> mistake at all! If you want to be safe, all you have to do is to
> use authorisation on your objects. See ripe-120 on how to do that.

But you should not use the auth: MAIL-FROM !!!

We were happy with the MAIL-FROM for years now ... but our "friend" 
from rain.fr knows to fake message-id and from-line.

| >   From:    Trevor McBryan hostmaster@localhost
| >   Cc:      hostmaster@localhost         
| >   Subject: longack 
| >   Date:    Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:34:27 +0000
| >   Msg-Id:  <36370F53.30E4F99F@localhost
|
| [...]  
|
| Delete OK: [person] MW1699-RIPE (Martin Weber)

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Kind regards,

Wilhelm

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