From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14031 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason R Mastaler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTHINFO Date: 14 Feb 1998 12:42:48 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153290 12495 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:34:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26521 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:50:14 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14398 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:48:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAN27050; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 14:25:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:46:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00987 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:46:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22217 invoked by uid 504); 14 Feb 1998 19:46:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22214 invoked from network); 14 Feb 1998 19:46:24 -0000 Original-Received: from camel8.mindspring.com (207.69.200.58) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 14 Feb 1998 19:46:24 -0000 Original-Received: from ashanti.mastaler.com (ip68.albuquerque.nm.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.185.68]) by camel8.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02526 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 14:46:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from jason@localhost) by ashanti.mastaler.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20091; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 12:42:49 -0700 (MST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "14 Feb 1998 20:31:33 +0100" Original-Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.25/XEmacs 20.5(beta24) - "Kaghani" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14031 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14031 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > > On the other hand, why not just stick it in .netrc? > > > > What goes in .netrc normally? (I don't have such a file) > > FTP authorization data. Since .netrc is already used for FTP, I think Gnus should definately not use .netrc to hold it's NNTP authorization data, but rather it's own file. (for security reasons)