On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:24:00 +1300, Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that sometimes you can get all headers and a
> heap of messages before being prompted for auth?
> I found that if you set the news server to induvidual.net instead of
> news.individual.net it sometimes takes hours to ask for auth, which to
> me seems a little odd, I'd have thought that it should ask for auto
> beofre handing out anything... although I have found that
> newsgate.xprivat.org seems to allow no auth too
News is not like e-mail, as in it is public. The auth is to stop unwanted
people, for whatever reason from usingit. Thus I see no problem with some
headers being handed out free, before auth ie.
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