ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

[Ken Murchison]

Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
> > Nobody is telling you that you HAVE to authenticate (ie, send AUTHINFO
> > PASS).  Just use the information provided by the USER command to setup
> > the server for the given domain.  You can do this with ACLs, chroot(),
> > fork() a process, I don't care.  The whole point is that this command
> > already exists and can provide you with the info that you need.
> >
> 
> Right, but again, AUTHINFO is used in authentication. Like it or not, I
> will have to tell my users to change their little Outlook Express settings
> and put 'anonymous at domain.com' in the username field.


And how would you have them configure their existing clients if you have
a HOST extension?  ;)

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