ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

[Joao Prado Maia]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> 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.
> 

Exactly, hence my question. Is that requirement something that bad ? I 
mean, we are already talking about adding SASL capabilities to the 
protocol, so why not adding another feature that might be beneficial ?

So we are back to the discussion of pros and cons to this idea.

Cheers,
Joao