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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> You mean, since the password is stored in clear text?  But that's the
> case in any case.  Or do you mean that miscreants will be able to
> sneak up to a logged-in terminal and ftp to the nntp server?  I hadn't
> thought of that...

I meant the second case.

> I dunno.  Let's have a vote:  ~/.netrc or, uhm, ~/.authinforc as the
> default file?

~/.authinforc