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From: Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: mail & news demons
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Date: 6 Aug 90 18:19:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: brian@ucsd.Edu's message of 6 Aug 90 17:53:10 GMT

>>>>> On 6 Aug 90 17:53:10 GMT, brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) said:

Brian>  [mini-inews now sends a password to the server]

What about nntp newsreaders that don't use the mini-inews (Xrn, GNUS)?
I know I could add the authentication stuff into Xrn, but GNUS?

I'm pretty happy that read access no longer implies xfer access.
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Ed Anselmo   anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu   {harvard,cmcl2}!yale!anselmo-ed