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In article <5mkJqrAHLFxwEA0q@turnpike.com>,
Richard Clayton  <richard@turnpike.com> wrote:
>In article <eag58tp2j.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>, Robert Nicholson
><robert@steffi.accessone.com> writes
>
>But the client, when started, does not issue a MODE READER. This is only
>required (AFAIK) by INN which must be persuaded that you are not another

This RFC 977 violation is only required by INN if you attempt to use a
reader from a machine which can also make non-reader accesses.  Any ISP
who configures their server, by default, to need this on the sort of
account where KA9Q or Agent or Turnpike is most likely to be used is:

1) being lazy;
2) not thinking about security;
3) hasn't yet realised (unlike Demon and Pipex) that standard reader type 
   access servers can't cope with massive numbers of readers, especially
   when they are offline readers.  (INN is optimised as a backbone system,
   not specifically for support of readers, and definitely not for KA9Q.)

(1) and (2) are arguable on commercial grounds (doing things "properly" may
increase administrative costs).

Steffi should ask his ISP to remove transfer permissions and at the same
time ask what their plans are for replacing their news servers with ones
suitable for massive offline reading.
-- 
David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk