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Re: ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961219131909.23295G-100000@piano.synapse.net> from "Evan Champion" at Dec 19, 96 01:53:40 pm
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Evan Champion wrote:
>
>On 19 Dec 1996, Chris Lewis wrote:
>
>> 	1) people adjusting headers etc - how do you identify which profile
>> 	   belongs to whom?  (short of full authentication)
>
>Well, what's wrong with full authentication?  Most open services only 
>allow read access (think of the web, or anonymous FTP, etc.)

Nothing's wrong with it, but surely the de facto standard form of
authentication for NNTP is by client hostname or address, not personal
username/password. Per-user authentication would be nice, but I'd be very
wary of basing other facilities on the assumption that it will be available
(or can be set up with a trivial - definitely not true in many environments 
- amount of effort) at any site that wants to use a particular newly-defined
facility.

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