ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Joao Prado Maia said:
>> 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.
> 
> Because I don't need this feature for authentication purposes. I basically 
> just want to serve different content for each separate "virtual host".
> 
> What it basically comes down to is that I have a server with just one IP 
> address available to me, and I have several domains hosted in this server 
> that I would like to serve newsgroups from.

Either use two different ports, or publish USER/PASS pairs for each server.
That is, "if you want server 2, specify user '2', password '2'; otherwise
you will get server 1".

Anything else will require adding new features to clients.

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