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Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available

Bob Sloane <SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Wed, 02 October 1996 21:39 UTC

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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 14:31:35 -0500 (UTC -05:00)
From: Bob Sloane <SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available
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> > I agree.  The stated goal is to document existing practice, rather
> > than extentions, isn't it?  Is there any reason to beleive that
> > AUTHINFO {USER,PASS} isn't the most used method of authentication
> > right now?  In what way does this situation differ from the BATCH
> > command, which was left out?
> 
> AUTHINFO has been part of the NNTP landscape since the beginning of the
> decade. BATCH has not. Only now it is finding its way into standard 
> releases of publically available software.

Yes, AUTHINFO {USER,PASS} has been around for quite a while. Aren't
the other forms of the AUTHINFO command fairly recent?  What packages
currently implement AUTHINFO SIMPLE or AUTHINFO GENERIC?
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