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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP authentication
Message-ID: <11637@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 3 May 89 20:56:51 GMT
References: <13084@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
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In article <13084@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:
>port?  Then, if a connection comes in from a non-trusted port, the
>server could just deny read access to *any* group that has such access
>restrictions.  However, if the connection comes in trusted, then the

What if the connection is coming from a PC-Clone with the right
hardware & software?  (namely, *ANY* TCP/IP software and an interface,
not necessarily an ether card)

Boys and Girls ... the Bezerkeley concept of priviledged ports is
merely a Unixism and is not enforced elsewhere.
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