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From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 10 May 2010 15:49
No major disagreement, Bo. Except that the only real reason this software
(which is release quality, we're told) exists is because people insisted
that we simply would not do forums without it. I actually don't care about
NNTP one way or another. But I do care about efficiency and asynchronous
use. NNTP is one solution, and one a lot of folks can take advantage of.

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"Bo Persson" <bop(a)gmb.dk> wrote in message
news:84qp9mFjplU1(a)mid.individual.net...
> Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
>> For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP
>> newsgroups, and not particularly looking forward to using web
>> forums, check out:
>> https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>>
>> This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on,
>> and it does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of
>> sorts. It works with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite
>> possibly others.
>
> Right, so MS is closing down their news servers, because nobody wants to
> use them anyway. Then offer an experimental software for us to run, should
> we still want news access?
>
> What am I missing here?
>
>
> Bo Persson
>
>

From: Thomas Scheidegger on 10 May 2010 18:43
Steve,

> Now we just need Microsoft to install this software onto one of their own
> servers, say msnews.microsoft.com perhaps (since that's about to be idle),
> and we can all carry on as we are.

I guess MS will not accept a (plain) NNTP-login,
but insists on a LiveID login.



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From: Steve Foster on 11 May 2010 09:53
Thomas Scheidegger wrote:

>Steve,
>
>>Now we just need Microsoft to install this software onto one of their own
>>servers, say msnews.microsoft.com perhaps (since that's about to be idle),
>> and we can all carry on as we are.
>
>I guess MS will not accept a (plain) NNTP-login,
>but insists on a LiveID login.

Well, the NNTP protocol supports authentication, so logically it could
take in Passport^H^H^HLiveID details and pass 'em through...

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From: Dave Warren on 11 May 2010 16:30
In message <xn0gu0hj56sxurq012(a)msnews.microsoft.com> "Steve Foster"
<steve.foster(a)picamar.co.uk> was claimed to have wrote:

>Thomas Scheidegger wrote:
>
>>Steve,
>>
>>>Now we just need Microsoft to install this software onto one of their own
>>>servers, say msnews.microsoft.com perhaps (since that's about to be idle),
>>> and we can all carry on as we are.
>>
>>I guess MS will not accept a (plain) NNTP-login,
>>but insists on a LiveID login.
>
>Well, the NNTP protocol supports authentication, so logically it could
>take in Passport^H^H^HLiveID details and pass 'em through...

So naturally it does not. Instead you have to authenticate in the NNTP
bridge app, then connect unauthenticated from your NNTP client.
From: Steve Foster on 12 May 2010 20:58
Dave Warren wrote:

>In message <xn0gu0hj56sxurq012(a)msnews.microsoft.com> "Steve Foster" wrote:
>>
>>Well, the NNTP protocol supports authentication, so logically it could
>>take in Passport^H^H^HLiveID details and pass 'em through...
>
>So naturally it does not. Instead you have to authenticate in the NNTP
>bridge app, then connect unauthenticated from your NNTP client.

Yuck.

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