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Re: How can I contact the administrator?

From Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: How can I contact the administrator?
Date 2018-08-25 12:35 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2018-08-25 12:21, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
[...]
>> In theory, the "administrator" should then contact the
>> address in the post and ask for confirmation.
>> I guess this would be impractical.
> 
> Nonsense, it’s perfectly practical, websites do it automatically all the
> time.

"website", not usenet server admins.

Furthermore, it could be a source of DoS.

One could collect automatically all the email
addresses and ask for removal of posts.
The server(s) will then flood email servers, and
accounts, with requests of confirmation.

Which then will lead to ignore such requests.

bye,

-- 

piergiorgio

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How can I contact the administrator? wong.jim1980@gmail.com - 2018-08-24 23:03 -0700
  Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 08:07 +0100
    Re: How can I contact the administrator? wong.jim1980@gmail.com - 2018-08-25 00:14 -0700
      Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 11:13 +0200
        Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 10:35 +0100
          Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 11:58 +0200
            Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 11:21 +0100
              Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 12:35 +0200
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 11:47 +0100
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 12:55 +0200
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 12:13 +0100
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? wong.jim1980@gmail.com - 2018-08-25 08:52 -0700
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2018-08-25 18:11 +0200
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 19:49 +0100
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-08-31 11:18 -0400
                Re: How can I contact the administrator? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-31 21:36 +0100
        Re: How can I contact the administrator? queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2018-08-30 10:07 +0000

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