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Excerpts from mail: (27-Feb-98) Re: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
>> Have you added any permission checks to Gnus? FTP gives an error if passwords
>> are listed in ~/.netrc and the permissions are not 600. I think it would be
>> wise if Gnus would do the same thing.
>
> I dunno.  Why should programs police the behaviors of users?

I dunno. Ask the authors of ftp, ncftp, rsh/rlogin/rcp, and ssh/slogin/scp.