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echo: fidonews
to: KOSTIE MUIRHEAD
from: BILL MCGARRITY
date: 2015-04-11 10:46:00
subject: Re: BBS systems

-=> On 04-11-15 03:03, Kostie Muirhead wrote to Michiel van der Vlist <=-

 KM>   Re: BBS systems
 KM>   By: Michiel van der Vlist to Janis Kracht on Sat Apr 11 2015 09:39:19

 MV> Setting a system to only accepts secure sessions is annoying. If one dies
 MV> not want to accpet calls from other nodelisted systems except for a select
 MV> group, one should not be in the nodelist.

 KM> Sorry, I have to disagree here. I can see plenty of reasons one might
 KM> only want to accept secure sessions, especially if one is a major hub.
 KM> Otherwise there's really nothing to stop someone from configuring a
 KM> system to dump data in while spoofing someone else's node #.

The mailer really doesn't need to as secure as you think.  The tosser on the
other hand.  


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