From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2001 - 13:23:32 CDT
>> If somebody forges an article in my name,
>> I should be able to cancel it quickly and easily.
>
> Sign your articles. Then there's
> no need to cancel forgeries later.
It's easy to fake a signature that will fool anybody whose software
doesn't check them, which is just about everybody.
>> If somebody posts an article from a site,
>> the site admin should be able to cancel it.
>
> Besides: why did the "site admin" give the
> poster permission to post in the first place?
He didn't know better, the poster lied on his application.
>> If somebody forges a spam attack appearing to come
>> from my site, I should be able to cancel it.
>
> If the so-called "spam attack" doesn't carry a valid
> signature, everyone can recognize that it didn't
> come from "your site". Not a cancel issue.
For a very small value of "everybody".
Seth