ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

[Ken Murchison]

Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> 
> I know this is not the best time to go over something as huge as this, but
> did anyone think of implementing a way for NNTP servers to accept clients
> in multiple named servers ?
> 
> Most of you guys probably know about the 'Host' header that gets sent from
> HTTP 1.1 compliant browsers, which allows web servers to serve pages for
> different domains while binding to the same port in the same IP address.
> 
> Could the same thing be implemented for NNTP ? Can anyone provide feedback
> about pros and cons about this idea ?

Why not just have users login with a fully qualified userid (eg,
user at domain.com)?  This is what is typically done for IMAP and POP3.

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