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Originally Posted by mdevour
How do you keep spammers or trolls from forging the addresses of real members? And, of course, there is no way to cancel an e-mail once it has been sent out to your members... I hope there's a viable strategy with some encryption tricks and custom headers that will help. Lots to think about!
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With canceling e-mails it's different. There's no actual solution for that as I know it. SMTP-servers only act on delivery, not on cancels. If that was what you meaned with the custom headers..
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Originally Posted by mdevour
Have you found sources for the protocols for Usenet? I think we're each going to need to study the parts of this application we're personally interested in and share our research to help with the coding.
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Here's some of them.
Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages
Network News Transfer Protocol
I don't think everything in them are necessary, because some parts might be interesting only if you're building a new server (I haven't read it so I can't confirm on that)..