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Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu> Thu, 19 December 1996 15:11 UTC

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From: Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
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Gentlemen,

Please do not forget that AUTHINFO USER does NOT REQUIRE A PASSWORD.

I originally added it to facilitate gathering of readership statistics,
and in that application, it needed only supply the username.

While AUTHINFO may be used to control access, that is not its only use.
	- Brian

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