Hello Chris!

Saturday August 31 1996, Chris Gunn writes to John Mudge:

 JM>> password.  The system does check your address to be sure it is valid
 JM>> and that there is a registered user at that site with that name.  Make
 JM>> sure your ISP has Reverse DNS set up for you.

 CG> Is that InterNet's version of a callback verifier?

Yup :-)

 CG> Some of the why's
 CG> InterNet works is still a puzzle.  Seems like doing an "anonymous"
 CG> logon
 CG> should mean it doesn't make any difference who I am {grin}.  Without a
 CG> real password, anyone could log on using anyone's address.

It varies from system to system.  'anonymous' logins can be quite secure.

                  John Mudge [jmudge@ptmudge.westsound.com]