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Subject: 
Re: slow server startup
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 03:03:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, William R. Ward wrote:
How about turning off the auth attempt? With the e-mail authorization
mechanism, it is rather unnecessary...

auth is useless, and has been for the last 10 years or so. I know of
no computer that replys to auth truthfully, and even if it does, it
proves nothing.

I'd disable it if it was easy, but it seems it might take a recompile of
the nntpd server, which I don't have time to do at this point...

Dan



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  Re: slow server startup
 
(...) How about turning off the auth attempt? With the e-mail authorization mechanism, it is rather unnecessary... --Bill. (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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