Mail-to-blog problem
I thought that it would be a good idea to add a mail-to-blog feature to sillytech. Basically there would be a blog@sillytech.com email address and anything you sent there would get posted here. Based on the email address it was sent from it would set the Posted by to your account.The problem with that is that it's very easy to forge the From field in the email protocol. So anyone could post as anyone.
One solution to this problem is to include your password or a secret word in the subject or body of the email. This guarantees that you are the real person.
The problem with this is that if you want to mail an entry to your blog as well as CC some other people then you give away your password in the CCs. This would be a useful feature to have in order to spread announcements as widely as possible.
I can't come up with a solution that allows authors to be verified and allows CCs as well. Ug.
| Posted by dustin on October 1, 2003 with category tags of sillytech |
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