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Re: Changing my email address

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Noob <root@127.0.0.1> writes:

> On 18/03/2015 02:30, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>
>> There's no obvious way to stop it, but you can discourage it by making
>> your posts harder to forge.  The last time there was a spate of
>> forgeries here, I started adding a header to my posts that can be
>> checked by a simple script on a web site.  The effect is that, were it
>> ever to matter, anybody can be reasonably sure that a post seemingly
>> from me was written by the person who owns bsb.me.uk.  You could do the
>> same for any domain you control that can run PHP.
>
> You could also digitally sign your messages. That's what asymmetric
> crypto is for, after all.

Yes, but the usual methods of transmitting it are frowned upon for
Usenet postings, hence my lightweight method involving only an extra
header.  The header could be a signature for the whole message but
that's also non-standard and makes checking it far more complicated.

-- 
Ben.

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