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

Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> Sat, 21 December 1996 05:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37thIETF
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I am sure that most people on this list now how to read multi-quoted
email, but I want to make it *VERY CLEAR* that the "I think" comment
is from Chris, not me.  I said I don't know what should be done.

 At 01:02 PM 12/20/96 -0800, Chris Newman wrote:
 >On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Rich Salz wrote:
 >Personally, I think AUTHINFO GENERIC should either be dropped from the
 >core draft, or replaced with SASL in the core draft.  The last thing we
 >need is two plug-in auth/encrypt modules when one is already deployed
 >(albeit not for NNTP).

>p.s. What would be the best way of showing a list of the valid
> authentication types in NNTP?  LIST AUTHINFO?  AUTHINFO LIST?

The latter was the intent.
	/r$

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