ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Feb 26 09:08:52 PST 2003


Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> 
> Exactly. I didn't really wanted to start a flamewar here, but I still
> didn't understand what is the problem in adding this new feature to the
> protocol. I mean, the new version of the protocol is already adding a
> bunch of features, why not this other one that might be valuable in some
> cases ?
> 
> And it is not a very hard modification either, it's basically just
> sending a new command:
> 
> HOST domain.com

And how is this any different from using:

AUTHINFO USER user at domain.com

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