[NNTP] Re: AUTHINFO and STARTTLS interaction

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> First, STARTTLS requires that one discard all authentication information
> performed before STARTTLS happens, which means that if one authenticates
> and then runs STARTTLS, one ends up unauthenticated again.  This is very
> counterintuitive.

Argh. You're right; that trumps my desire for uncoupled documents.
Leave the restriction in place.

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