Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2018 09:03:05 Mark Rousell wrote: > >> On 28/08/2018 12:42, Michael Stone wrote: >> > Yes and no. NNTP is inherently open to abuse because it wasn't >> > designed with mechanisms to account for the cost of a transaction. >> > (This is true of all the early internet protocols, not just NNTP, >> > which is why we have, e.g., such a spam problem on SMTP.) >> >> Isn't this true of, say, HTTP too? > > [...] I had a long talk with > him just last week about how they are doing this new protocol where they > A: don't bother to verify me when I get redirected to their servers for > a one time code pad number to verify the authorization of my purchase.
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