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From: pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Validity of USENET news statistics
Message-ID: <1989Sep23.015037.3627@anise.acc.com>
Date: 23 Sep 89 01:50:37 GMT
References: <17735@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep20.060201.4473@rpi.edu> <1989Sep22.215638.10792@rpi.edu>
Organization: Advanced Computer Communications, Santa Barbara, California
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I posted the code I wrote for the USER command and promptly got a note from
Brian Kantor asking me not to diddle things since we're talking about changes
to the protocol.  Since that's the case,  I've decided it was best to cancel
the article containing my diffs.  Anyone that wants it on an individual
basis may send me mail and I will forward it to you as long as you understand
that Brian and cohorts are working to revamp the protocol.  Unfortunately
I don't remember anyone talking about user identification (or more agressively,
authentication) except myself the last time this was in a public forum.

In any case, drop me a note if you want it, or sit tight and wait to see
what the folks in the know are doing (which will probably be a more elegant
way of doing things in any case).

-- 
The difference between this school and a cactus plant is that the
cactus has the pricks on the outside.