Security Incidents: Re: @home: Is *anyone* really home there???

From: Greg A. Woods <woods_at_MOST.WEIRD.COM>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:05:19 -0500

[ On Monday, February 28, 2000 at 17:29:50 (-0700), Wozz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: @home: Is *anyone* really home there???
>
> Its not, and this is something we are working on. I've even considering a
> auto-respond that asks users to go to a web page and fill out a form to
> register a complaint, as that way I can be assured I have the information I
> need to act upon, and don't have to waste everyone's time with followup
> emails.

I've been thinking about that too, but I'd want to avoid having it
abused too and I think I'd want the autoresponder to generate a secure
"key" that had to be used to successfully submit a report from the web
form and which could only be used once....

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Received on Mar 01 2000