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Re: Message awaiting authentication
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:27:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.faq, Neb Okla wrote:
> > I don't want to use the web client. It's clunky.
> >
> > With NNTP, I can read posts offline, choose my NNTP client (thus finding a
> > UI that is right for me), etc.
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> > I also know that Lugnet members have a username and password. One would
> > wonder then why the NNTP service simply doesn't require a user to login?
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> Good question. Are NNTP passwords transmitted in plain text? Perhaps
> that's the reason it's not been implemented on lugnet. Or maybe it's
> because they want to allow non members in via NNTP. If that's the case,
> why not allow members in with a password via a different port?
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> > I know this can be done, because I operate one such NNTP server and it keeps
> > the Spam and bad people out, and also doesn't require cumbersome "approval"
> > messages for every post.
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> Then perhaps revisiting this discussion will produce a solution for
> NNTP users. Keep talking.
Perhaps a clever coder could screenscrape LUGNET's web interface to give posting
capabilities from their own private NNTP server fed article stream? (perhaps
supplied by the "avid" technology or something? I dunno) Meaning that the
screenscraper logged the user in, did the post, and then logged out or similar?
I think a sufficiently clever coder could have done it by now if there was a
large perceived need.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) You're missing the point Larry. NNTP is a well supported, standardized interface. Because of this, there are many very nice already existing NNTP clients. (I remember using EMACS to read NNTP news while editing code perhaps 20 years ago). (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
| | | Re: Message awaiting authentication
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Hoz7Hn.DC2@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) (perhaps (...) similar? (...) a (...) Screen-scraping is a hack. It'd be much better to simply use an NNTP server as the data store for (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Message awaiting authentication
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| (...) Good question. Are NNTP passwords transmitted in plain text? Perhaps that's the reason it's not been implemented on lugnet. Or maybe it's because they want to allow non members in via NNTP. If that's the case, why not allow members in with a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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