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Re: Can someone please explain...
From: Russ Allbery <rra () STANFORD EDU>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:40:04 -0700
Michal Nazarewicz <cefek () CAREER PL> writes:
Tuesday, Talisker wrote:
T>433 NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol see rfc 977 T>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html
To be more precise: it's an NNTP over SSL crypted (secure) layer.
No, it's not. That's NNTPS. NNSP was originally intended to be NNTP without the reader commands (i.e., server to server peering only). Some people have misused the port number for NNTP over SSL, but that's not what it's for. -- Russ Allbery (rra () stanford edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Current thread:
- Re: Can someone please explain... Mike Apted (Aug 01)
- Re: Can someone please explain... Russ Allbery (Aug 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Can someone please explain... Mike McPherson (Aug 01)
- Re: Can someone please explain... Talisker (Aug 02)
- Re: Can someone please explain... Michal Nazarewicz (Aug 04)
- Re: Can someone please explain... Russ Allbery (Aug 07)