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Re: I'm back...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 28 May 2001 13:52:34 GMT
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Chris Gray wrote:
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> "Mike Stanley" <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> writes:
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> > I don't know about anyone else, but if I had the choice between verifying
> > each and every post manually by following some link and/or responding to a
> > verification method or choosing to use straight nntp and a reader like Free
> > Agent or Gravity, I think I'd just switch to doing it the nntp way.
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> Are there any verification things that are part of the official NNTP
> protocol? If not, then anyone who uses a standard old newsreader could
> end up being out of luck. I use 'gnus' inside Gnu emacs, for example. I
> also have absolutely no idea what my password (is that what we have?) is,
> since I've never needed it for anything. Hopefully I wrote it down
> somewhere. Basically I read and occasionally post to, the Lugnet
> newsgroups, but have never used any of the other services (except the
> set database of course).
Every news reader I've used on a PC (Outlook Express, Netscape
Communicator, and WinVN) has had the ability to authenticate.
Frank
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