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Re: News - The Return

#153
From: Richard Clayton
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <905701680.10365.0.nnrp-06.d4e48b20@news.demon.co.uk>,
Alisdair Wren <alisdair@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes

>I have examined the appropriate RFCs which I can find, but cannot find 
>how to:
>a)  Authenticate a Usenet client trying to connect to a server which 
>requires it -or-

you need Stan Barber's Internet Draft <draft-ietf-nntpext-imp-03.txt>
(or indeed the source for a modern news server)

>b)  Instruct the server to stop sending data (e.g. a list of newsgroups) 
>before completion (for example, if a user used a 'Stop' button).

disconnect (nothing else works)

-- 
richard                       writing to inform and not as company policy
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