From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 13:28:01 CST
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:58:30PM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Administrators of such agents SHOULD therefore take steps to verify
> the genuiness of such control messages, either by manual inspection
Is this a real word? How about authenticity?
> Malicious cancel messages (7.3) can cause valid articles to be
> removed from serving agents. Administrators of such agents SHOULD
> therefore take steps to verify that they originated from the poster,
> the injector or the moderator of the article, or that in other cases
I would add to this list "the authorized owner of an E-mail address or
domain in an e-mail address used in a From/Reply-to/Sender/Approved header"
recongizing the philosphy that if somebody forges a message from my address
that I am authorized to cancel it.