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NNTP Authentication
draft-newman-nntpext-auth-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Author Chris Newman
Last updated 1998-11-18
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft can be found at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-newman-nntpext-auth-01.txt

Abstract

Although NNTP [NNTP] has traditionally provided public access to newsgroups, it is often useful to use authentication to control resource consumption as well as to create restricted-access newsgroups. The NNTP AUTHINFO command described here provides a way to do this.

Authors

Chris Newman

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