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In <
RsidnW7iOaxirIPNnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@giganews.com> Aaron W. Hsu <
arcfide@sacrideo.us> writes:
Well, for "potential" users like John F. Morse,
...and for existing real users. Yes, I'm one of them, and this is where
I thank you for this and everything else you've done with nn.
I have just pushed patches to my GitHub version of NN to support the
forcing of NN to authenticate itself whether or not the server requires it
or not.
I apologize for not thinking to share it at the time, but I did something similar with my local copy of nn in 2014.
I'd just started using news.eternal-september.org as my news server,
and discovered its habit of returning 200 even if no authentication
is attempted, but in that case it grants access only to its private
newsgroups.
- Steven
--
___________________________________________________________________________ Steven Winikoff | The consultant's 3 rules of crisis management:
Montreal, QC, Canada | 1) When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
smw@smwonline.ca | 2) When life hands you a hemlock, don't make
http://smwonline.ca | hemlock-ade.
| 2a) Always know the difference between a lemon
| and a hemlock.
| - Rick Cook
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